Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front of Captain Anthony Eden's hotel at Geneva last week nose-holding Communists tied an oil can to a British flag tagged "Shall we fight for this?" After similarly demonstrating in front of the hotels of other delegations, they poured the oil on the flag, burned the Union Jack...
British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare had broken his nose while ice-skating at Zuoz. "Flying Sam" told reporters when they arrived that he had skinned his nose, continued to go out skating with a small bit of court plaster over...
...enough to install six microphones and loudspeakers in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords; they had to be especially gilded to blend with the antique décor. For draping the chamber with suitable hangings favored drapers got at least $2,000. Since there was much nose-holding at these costs, and since there was already much more nose-holding at the offer of nearly half of Ethiopia by His Majesty's Government to Fascist Mussolini...
...George Phillips in 1630, founded Phillips Andover and Phillips Exeter Academies. The first mayor of the city of Boston was his great-grandfather.* The Phillips family fortune, made in shipping and real estate and preserved in the best New England tradition, stands behind him. His shapely head, long nose and aristocratically petulant mouth were born to him. He went to Harvard in the same class (1900) with, three other young men who grew up to be eminent U. S. diplomats by profession, William R. Castle Jr., Robert Woods Bliss, Peter Augustus Jay. Billy Phillips' career matched his endowments. After...
Flutes have been made of wood, bamboo, ivory, jade, rubber, porcelain, crystalline glass, papier-mache, wax and human thigh bones. Flutes have been played by nose as well as by mouth. They were played by Cleopatra's father, by Benvenuto Cellini, Henry VIII, Frederick the Great, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Oliver Goldsmith, George Washington, the first John Jacob Astor. Theobald Boehm, a Bavarian court musician, made the first metal flute in 1847. Professor Dayton Clarence Miller, flute-playing physicist at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, was first to experiment with platinum, proving that the denser the metal...