Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fellow is forced to leave more than three times, no more tickets will be sold to him." The chief trouble with old ladies is their inability to see in the dark. I remember one lady who, temporarily blinded, stretched out her arms and waving them hestitantly fingered the nose and eyes of a startled man for several seconds...
...longest skiing season in New England is at Mansfield in Stowe, Vermont. A new ski tow has been installed and open slopes have been cleared on the lower part of the mountain. Chin Clip, Smuggler's Notch, and Nose Dive trails are all expert runs...
...succeed him, Secretary Morgenthau selected Frank Wilson, a keen-looking sleuth with a sharp inquiring nose and glittering spectacles. New Chief Wilson dug up the income tax evasion evidence which sent Al Capone to prison, traced and identified in court the Lindbergh ransom money. His assistant will be Joseph Edward Murphy, who was Chief Moran's aide until last summer when he got himself, his department and Secretary Morgenthau into an intra-Cabinet snarl by setting Secret Servants on the trail of G-Men suspected of murdering criminals without giving them a chance to surrender (TIME...
...Down goes the nose of the plane. Now, what's the airspeed indicator hand? 200- 250-300, flush! Pressure in the ears. A yell, and they are cleared. The altimeter hand is late, for we are 1,000 feet ahead of it. At 10,000 feet I can make out land and water. Lloyd's Neck looks like the head of a dinosaur and the next peninsula is like a giant cypress tree...
...plane is standing straight on its nose-350, 360 miles an hour ... we are whistling toward Roosevelt Field...