Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edith & the Peacock. Great poets and happy childhoods rarely go together. Edith Sitwell's parents would have preferred a boy. Her father, Sir George, was offended by Edith's aquiline nose and got a doctor to try to change it "by iron and manacles." The attempt failed. Sir George also was cross when his daughter showed a distaste for lawn tennis, made her practice the cello, although she liked the piano. "I used to practice with tears pouring down my cheeks because the ¶string hurt my little finger so frightfully, and also because I was making such...
Gaucherie. In Pasadena, Calif., after she had testified in an uncontested divorce action that her husband had blackened her eyes 50 times, broken her glasses 150 times, broken her collarbone, broken her nose and kicked a hole in her leg, Mrs. Emma L. Kincaid was asked if she found this upsetting, replied: "Well I'll tell you, it certainly embarrasses...
Coach Cooney Weiland will use the same lineup the played against Brown. First line wing Torry O'Malley, recipient of a broken nose from a Bruin stick, is expected to be ready for action. Joe Crehore, who has scored three goals in the last two games, will probably alternate again with Dough Manchester on the first line, thus freeing him for spot duty at defense...
...issue of the play is a timeless one: country virtue vs. city materialism. A dignified but homespun Vermont woman suddenly gains as a living companion on her farm a plump, middle aged woman from Dedbam, Mass., who speaks through her nose and adores TV. The latter can hardly appreciate an old woman who reminisces about the boarded-up southwest corner of her house, just because it was once the parlor of her family. A conflict of values is inevitable...
...like a pinwheel. These pieces testify to his roving eye, roguish humor and beery vision of the human condition. He can draw a third-person self-portrait as accurately as a brilliant cartoonist or observant cop: "He's five foot six and a half. Thick blubber lips; snub nose; curly mouse-brown hair; one front tooth broken . . . speaks rather fancy; truculent; plausible ; a bit of a shower-off; plus fours and no breakfast, you know ... a bombastic adolescent provincial bohemian with a thick-knotted artist's tie made out of his sister's scarf-she never knew...