Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Lee Pressman, the C.I.O.'s sharply tailored legal eagle, walked out of Phil Murray's Washington office-and out of his job-one day last week, he was lugubriously blowing his nose and drying his eyes. Behind him, Phil Murray was so overcome with emotion that he could not even step outside for a news picture...
Food Minister John Strachey, who keeps Britons' rations short, is long of nose, patience and temper. He has smiled tolerantly through many a public heckling from food-short Britons. Last week he got it hot & heavy again from howling Scots housewives in his own constituency at Dundee: "We want food; we don't want empty promises." Outside, after the speech, a crowd of women gave him a raucous parting boo. There was clearly nothing a gentleman could say, but what a gentleman could do John Strachey did: very courteously, he tipped...
Restless Artist Giacometti was troubled by the fact that he couldn't do all his job at once. If he started on the tip of the nose, the rest of the face would lose shape and perspective. "The distance between one side of the nose and the other," he wrote, "is like the Sahara." Later, in an effort to grasp the whole, his sculptures began to shrink until they became so small that they would fall apart at the touch of his knife. Finally, his figures began to seem real to him only when they were long and slender...
Fortnight ago, his nose for news began to twitch again. He presided over a house-warming at his paper's new London home. Then he cleared his billiard-table-sized desk, and caught a boat train. In Manhattan last week, four hours after stepping off the Queen Elizabeth, he gave the Council on Foreign Relations a lucid lecture on Britain's "concealed inflation" (the Crowther view: an oversupply of demand) and its inevitable end ("we are disconcerted now by the boominess of the boom, as we shall be equally disconcerted by the slumpiness of the slump...
...Churchill once paused to consider Sir Stafford Cripps, whose plaster-saintly face is enlivened by a perennially red nose. "A very satisfactory division of labor," said Churchill. "I get the drink and he gets the nose...