Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politely declined them all. U. S. District Attorney J. Howard McGrath from Providence was his guest two evenings at the Dunes. Otherwise he kept alone. By week's end, when he departed in his big official Packard for a Michigan visit, he was fairly well rested. His nose was red, his freckles refulgent. He felt he had conscientiously obeyed the orders of his Chief, who had firmly told him: "Frank, I want you to get out of town [Washington]. . . ." But he could not relax entirely, for of all the top men in the U. S. Government, not excepting even...
Remember the Cardiff? Nearly 21 years ago she steamed proudly (her nose was wet; she never learned how to take a header) up the broad Firth of Forth, with the Friedrich der Grosse and the other beaten Germans in her wake-a wagging Welsh terrier leading a pack of drooping greyhounds...
...Howard found that the songs of U. S. tots, often accompanied by ritualistic fingerpointing, spitting, face-making and nose-thumbing, were savage but cheerful in spirit, had "a Rabelaisian flavor." Sample...
...tubes he inserted into the babies' nostrils. After they began to gasp again, he pulled out the nostril tubes, attached a rubber mask made from an old stomach pump in his instrument kit to the fourth tube, held it for a few minutes over each baby's nose. In a short time their pinched blue faces turned red again and they began to breathe normally...
...most Congressmen the pleasure of putting thumb to nose and waving all four fingers in the direction of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was last week a fully satisfying occupation (see p. 12). But to Congress' thoughtful fringe (New Deal and anti-New Deal) there was a far more interesting occupation, the same occupation as that of many a businessman, trying to answer a question...