Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sixpence (12?). Lilliput contains ten articles (Sam Goldwyn, Upton Sinclair), ten stories (Liam 0'Flaherty, Sacha Guitry), ten cartoons ("I think there's been a mistake, you've sent a gout up to maternity"), 40 photographs (John D. Rockefeller Sr., nudes, still life, Mussolini holding his nose), seven color plates (Hogarth's The Graham Children, Correggio's Venus, Mercury and Cupid). Editor is Hungarian-born Stefan Lorant, capable but not popular in Fleet Street. He first made a name on the Münchner Illustrierte Presse, was tossed into jail for six months when Hitler...
...wits, Mrs. Newell screamed and started to run. The screech owl followed her, clawed her again before flitting back to its tree. The laundress ran into the school, stammered out her story, was taken to a hospital and treated for eight lacerations and bruises of the nose...
...rear seat of an auto the other night, we collided with another car ahead of us-at a rate of about 35 m.p.h. ... I saw what was coming and braced myself. My companion in the back seat had not been watching, and he bounced forward and banged his nose on the back of the front seat. The passenger alongside the driver bumped his forehead on the windshield. Then blood and all the usual details. An ordinary aviation safety belt could have prevented every single human injury in that case...
...latest of which was last week played in England (see p. 40). Bobby Jones is an honorary PGA vice-president and most of the ranking U. S. professionals belong. President George Richard Jacobus is typical. A pleasant-faced man of 38 with stocky build, brown hair and a crooked nose, he has taught golf for 19 years, most of them at the Ridgewood (N. J.) Country Club. He never won a major title but currently shoots in the low 70s, claims to be the only man ever to shoot eight consecutive birdies...
Langdon Towne returned to Portsmouth, a bravo who could safely thumb his nose at civil authority, could even sell some pictures. Beauteous, snobbish Elizabeth, long out of his reach, began to bend towards him. Then came great Major Rogers himself, to be lionized. He treated Langdon bluffly as an old pal-and took his girl away from him. Langdon, heartbroken, sailed for London to learn more about painting. There,.four years later, he met Rogers again, still a great man but with the cracks beginning to show. Rogers was full of a scheme to find the Northwest Passage, will...