Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does help the body of children to grow. It does help prevent eye diseases. But, said Dr. McCollum, Vitamin A does not directly prevent colds as many manufacturers of candies and drugs claim. The only effect Vitamin A has on colds is to increase secretions from mucous membranes of nose and throat. Those secretions kill invading germs, may prevent a cold, if germs actually cause colds. His advice was not to drink cod-liver oil, in which Vitamin A is usually sold, as a cold-preventive...
Twelve years ago a sandy-haired German with vast feet and an enormous nose shuffled into the Manhattan gallery of Erhard Weyhe. He was, he said, a baker by trade. His name was Emil Ganso and he had a portfolio of drawings to show. Dealer Weyhe did not think the pictures were good enough for an immediate exhibition. Nevertheless he signed Baker Ganso to a long contract, gave him a small weekly allowance on which to live while he went on painting. It was a shrewd investment. Proudly last week Dealer Weyhe gave his protégé an exhibition...
...Christmas 1888 at Arles in Southern France a young painter with a hooked nose called at the house of his best friend. Police and neighbors, all shouting excitedly, stood before the yellow door. Up rushed the red-faced chief of police...
...Hook-nosed Paul Gauguin, half Peruvian, was born in Paris, spent part of his childhood in the Andes. After brief schooling at a Jesuit seminary in Orléans, he ran away to sea. Chastened by that experience, he returned to Paris, married a Danish woman, did quite well for himself as a stockbroker. On Sundays Broker Gauguin got the smell of counting houses out of his nose by going into the suburbs, painting landscapes. On these trips he met and made friends with Impressionists Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. In 1887 he suddenly deserted wife, family and the stock...
...skir-mish at London seems likely. Less than two weeks ago Flandin journeyed across the Channel demanding nothing less than war on Germany to remove the troops from the Rhineland. Since that stormy day, crushed by elephantine proctocol and the reluctance of Britain to see beyond her nose, France has recognized the hopelessness of her position. The Neutral Zone plan was foisted upon French statesmen with the "take it or leave it" attitude in which Britain has always been an expert...