Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those days The Mouse was a skinny little squeaker with matchstick legs, shoebutton eyes and a long, pointy nose. His teeth were sharp and fierce when he laughed, more like a real mouse's than they are today, and he staggered stiffly through the hasty animation. He had the same tiny, squeaky voice, however; usually, Walt himself speaks Mickey's lines...
Shape of a Nose. He called on the Platts one night and charged that they were Negroes. Allan Platt had his marriage license and the children's birth certificates to prove the family white. Instead of listening, the sheriff ordered the children to line up for a photograph...
...principal tried to be polite, but the sheriff was in no mood for the amenities. He pointed to Denzell Platt, 17, and declared: "His features are Negro." Then he pointed to Laura Belle, 13, and said: "I don't like the shape of that one's nose." After this lesson in anthropology, Principal Roseborough surrendered. The Platts, he said, would have to stay out of school "until the sheriff is satisfied...
...Irish-Indian stock, probably descendants of Sir Walter Raleigh's "lost colony" of Roanoke. "If you are a parent," she wrote, "look at your own child and think what it would mean to you if an adult said: 'I do not like your child's nose and thereby decreed that your child cannot associate with other children." She also lashed out at a visiting lecturer, Bryant Bowles...
...yards of string. He usually eats white meat of chicken, ground sirloin, ice cream and ginger ale. He wears custom-made jackets, red with black velvet collars with C. C. on them. They have heart-shaped pockets with Kleenex in them in case he has to blow his nose. We wear matching costumes. He wears his red jacket when I wear red slacks and sweater. When I wear green, he wears green. He has a rhinestone collar for evening wear...