Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking Frankly. In Milwaukee, after sheriff's deputies found him drunk in his parked car, bandaged his bloody nose, moved the car to a parking lot, turned on the heater and extracted a promise from him not to drive until sober, Morritz Lamberty drove 150 feet to a new parking place, was arrested and fined $150, explained: "When you're drinking, you're not always as smart as you ought...
Talk about realism! I took one look at the cover and felt the sensation of Mr. Meany's cigar smoke in my nose . . . Congratulations to Boris Chaliapin...
...must be a party of principle and program-and that we have not been. We cannot do it by this form of political cannibalism in which we spend our time chewing each other up." Having chewed, amidst uproarious applause, he stalked over to Butler and spat: "You stuck your nose in something that was none of your business." Chairman Butler flushed with anger. "I didn't realize I had said anything that would offend anyone," he snapped later...
When the men performed, the U.S. show turned dull. Despite a record-breaking dash down the dangerous Nose Dive trail by Skeeter Werner's 19-year-old kid brother, Buddy, no American placed better than fifth in the combined scoring. Ahead of the U.S. entrants were such seasoned stars as Austria's Andreas Molterer, Japan's Chiharu Igaya (now a Dartmouth undergraduate) and France's Adrien Duvillard. Dartmouth Alumni Ralph Miller and Brooks Dodge finished fifth and seventh, and to fill out the eight-man U.S. Olympic team, the committee had to reach far back into...
Harry Truman, who once threatened to punch Washington Post Musicritic Paul Hume in the nose after Hume hinted that Daughter Margaret's voice was maybe not operatic, went in for some critic's art himself. Reviewing a record album (The Confederacy, Columbia SL-220, $10) for The Saturday Review, Critic Truman found its songs and readings "excellent." After that, Truman happily digressed to one of his favorite pastimes-a folksy War-Between-the-States history lesson, second-generation style. "When I listened to the record I could see [Confederate General James E.] Jeb Stuart with his plumed...