Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smash the Conference and he was about to smash the Conference. By so doing he would incur for Japan the supreme risk that her defiance might stir up the Great Powers to do something at last to check the onslaught Japan launched in 1931 when she thumbed her short nose at the Briand-Kellogg Pact, made war her national policy and, withdrawing from the League of Nations in 1933, continued to advance upon China in a predatory campaign still highly successful. Perhaps there was no real risk of the tabby cat powers doing anything, but whatever the risk Admiral Nagano...
Even before Arthur B. Davies' death in 1928, Mrs. Rockefeller had developed a sharp nose of her own for talent. Tramp ing through galleries, she has spotted many a promising newcomer. She was the first collector to buy a painting by an aged Pittsburgh housepainter named John Kane, who before his death in 1934 became the high-priced rage of the modern art world (TIME, June 3 et ante}. She was one of the first to buy from the eccentric Louis Eilshemius...
...gone out-side the gate. When he did, it took him hours to get anywhere, as he would carefully plan his "means of transport" ahead of time from guides that were out of date. He used soap only on Sundays, other days he merely rubbed the end of his nose with a wet towel...
...throat. The loose flaps of membrane he then stitches to new positions on the palatine bone. By the time they grow onto the bone and new membrane grows over the bared portions of the bone, the soft palate has learned to prevent consonantal sounds from rumbling into the nose. Then speech is perfectly clear...
...they met. More, they were obsessed by their hatred of each other. But they rarely met. practically never spoke. Their paths parted briefly when Sharpies went up to Oxford and Wace into business. Sharpies turned up again just in time to steal Wace's sweetheart from under his nose, not for love of her but hate of him. That finished Wace's happiness: he took to drink, married a grateful prostitute. In middle age, both separated from their wives and each with a grown-up child, the enemies were settled in London. Sharpies began to dog Wace...