Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broken Noses. By & large, the cramped U.S. population had become as resigned as Chinese coolies in a Shanghai doss house. Yet here & there a savage temper showed through. In New York, a landlord was sent to jail for breaking a woman tenant's nose after she complained to the rent-control board that he was overcharging her (her rent: $40 a month for one room...
...Banana Nose. Why do horseplayers jeer the jockey they freely acknowledge to be the best? The fan who shouts, "Hey you, Banana Nose, drop dead!" would have a hard time explaining it. If pinned down, he. would probably admit that he thinks Arcaro is so good he can win whenever he wants to. And thus, when Arcaro loses, the fan suspects something fishy is going...
Horseplayers are as suspicious as they are superstitious. The $2 bettor, his nose buried in a Racing Form, usually has a queasy feeling that there are things going on that he wots not of, but that the wise boys wot right well. He is peculiarly sensitive to the great American dread of being played for a sucker. But he still thinks he has a chance?if he can dope some angles...
...asked often between now and November. How accurate are the polls ? Is their sampling really scientific? Can the result of elections be predicted on a slide rule? Do polls follow the voters or do voters follow the polls? Are the polls, in short, leading democracy by its too gullible nose...
...explain the last portrait, which Picasso painted in 1939, Sabartés repeats a puzzled dialogue with his own doctor, who had never before seen a Picasso. "What astonishes me," the doctor had sensibly remarked to Sabartés, "is to see the nose going one way and the lips and chin another, as if the face were in profile, and the head both in profile and full face at the same time but in a different direction from the eyes, except that one of them is hanging in the air while the glasses are upside down...