Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Triangle. In Genoa, Italy, Vasco Cavallero got a year in jail for bigamy, despite the impassioned pleas of his two wives, who protested that they were a "perfect family," living cosily together and minding their own business until the law stuck its nose...
...Nose in the Air. Evelyn came to radio a roundabout way that began in Reedville, Va., where she sang in a Methodist choir, played Mabel in a high-school production of The Pirates of Penzance, and acquired an altitudinous nose-tilt that earned her the nickname "Little Miss God." After graduation, she breezed into Washington's Station WRC, asked for a singing job, and got one-a 10 a.m. spot twice a week over NBC. The pay: $16 a broadcast...
Sometimes one of his Dodgers gets too deep in debate with an umpire, and that calls for Technique No. 3. The trick is to take over the fight. He thrusts out his chin, wags a threatening finger under the ump's nose, and as a final insult kicks sand on the umpire's shoes. Says Durocher: "Sure, I get bounced but my player stays...
...concrete examples of what sudden slump would mean, they have samples in the sharp cut of restaurant and night club activity last fall, the spectacle of full-scale fur sales in December, the desperate attempt of liquor companies to head off a price war when liquor sales took a nose dive. These are piecemeal readjustments, the wholesale collapse of an over-expanded price structure would be much worse if for no other reason than its immensity...
Some sort of sign of stability was recorded, however, in the announcement that for the third year in the row, Joan Crawford had been awarded the Poon's humh-in-nose accolade as the "Actress with the Most Toes in the Grave...