Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long hot weeks of summer Franklin Roosevelt looked down his nose, disparaging the idea that he should campaign for reelection. When late in droughty August he began making "nonpolitical" campaign speeches newshawks plagued him with demands for the date of his first political speech. "About Jan. 4," he jibed. But last week when New England's birches were yellow, her maples orange, her oaks red, Franklin Roosevelt had lost his coyness about campaigning. He was out on the stump with other politicians, waving his hat at the electorate. His weekdays and nights were full of political speeches, bis Sundays...
...Ipswich police were even more in a dither. They gave away the secret of how Mrs. Simpson was to arrive by practicing elaborately in front of Ipswich Courthouse. Inside last week, plagued with a bad cough and a runny nose, was Mr. Justice Hawke before whom Mrs. Simpson was to accuse Mr. Simpson of carrying on with "Buttercup." It was considered a good sign for Mrs. Simpson when Mr. Justice Hawke, after emitting a loud sneeze, snapped at a lawyer who was pleading another case: "Don't talk so much! I have already made up my mind." Sporting...
That Mr. Pickwick was not an original creation of Charles Dickens is illustrated by "Maxims and Hints for an Angler," by Robert Seymour. The pictures in this book show a short, pudgy figure with glasses on the end of his nose and with a long tail coat, the exact counterpart of Dickens' famous character. The fact is that Dickens probably derived the idea from the drawings of Seymour...
...Barbara Phillips announced that, though she also read Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and the Atlantic Monthly, and could identify such widely assorted characters as Vincent van Gogh, Beatrice Lillie and Princes Natalie Paley, she still stood in need of advice on "how to do my hair, powder my nose, cultivate sex appeal and walk a straight line...
...capped," to Columbia University for a voice test, to a wigmaker for a flattering, readymade wig to cover her short, scraggly hair. A dress designer conceived a special frock to "soften the neckline." Make-up Man Senz "deepened" Miss Phillips' bulgy eyes with dark brown "shadow," made her nose look smaller, penciled in wide-curved eyebrows, applied long artificial eyelashes. Stepping back from his work with satisfaction, "Eddie" Senz tweaked the nurse's nose and chuckled: "Phillips, you're looking swell!" Most of the beautifying tricks were temporary, could be made permanent with more careful work...