Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporting of this gathering in TIME also shows that your organization is wide-awake and has a nose for news. None of the northwest metropolitan newspapers that came to my attention gave this convention and celebration any notice whatever, either before, during or after the gathering. Practically all of the northwest newspapers are reactionary and, like Lot's wife, are looking backward. The Hoover era to them means happy days never to be forgotten and they sigh for their return...
...Nazis, led by Danzig Senate President Arthur Karl Greiser. who recently thumbed his nose in the League Council (TIME, July 13), cracked back with decrees muzzling the Danzig Opposition and putting all citizens last week at the mercy of the Nazi police. Adolf Hitler's supreme chief of German Police, Heinrich Himmler, sent one of his closest aides to become Danzig's Police Chief...
...despair the League's Seán Lester penned a report saying that Nose-Thumber Greiser's Senate had refused even to answer questions by the High Commissioner as to what was supposed to be the constitutional basis for their arbitrary Nazi decrees. Unanswered Mr. Lester then took his wife and dog fishing...
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...Detroit, John Drotar, onetime trolley motorman, cut off the end of his wife's nose. Explained Husband Drotar: "She was putting her nose into my business so I sliced...