Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stitch in Time. In Los Angeles, deputy sheriffs rummaged purposefully through an automobile wreck for 20 minutes, found is-year-old Esther Yvonne Brooks's severed nose, rushed to the hospital, where waiting doctors sewed it back...
...roly-poly California Sculptor Yucca Salamunich. who says she has The Sexiest Head in Hollywood. Judy Garland, Salamunich decided, has The Least Sexy Head. Excerpt from the admiring sculptor's informal citation to Miss Smith: "She has the perfect North American head. Those high cheekbones and yunnnh! That nose! Long and straight. Passionate women always have long, straight noses...
According to Variety, in a front-page "scoop" signed by Editor Abel Green, rich Marshall Field was waving his bankroll under Winchell's nose, to lure him away from Hearst and into the Chicago Sun, as Field had lured Cartoonist Milton Caniff from McCormick & Patterson. The bait: $200,000 a year, double Winchell's income from Hearst...
...dictionary calls it "a catarrhal affection of the mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, and respiratory tract," and Oliver Wendell Holmes said that the only cure for it "is six feet of gravel, taken externally," but all these unfortunates cursed with hay fever know that it is one damn nuisance...
Created by a solemn, helpless-looking Liverpudlian named Harry Hanan, Louie is a solemn, helpless-looking little man with a bald head, a deadpan, a huge nose resting firmly on a huge mustache. Louie has no fixed profession. Sometimes he is a barber (as was Hanan's father), sometimes a henpecked husband, a wistful bachelor, a timid burglar-but always a meek soul with an inferiority complex about women. Like his happily married creator, Louie suffers from a gnawing desire to snip feathers off women's hats...