Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makeup was handled by Specialist Syd Simons, who each day spent an hour and five Max Factor bases on Amy. He shadowed the sides of her nose ("That's not to say there's anything wrong with her nose, but we didn't want it to broaden under the bright, flat light"); shaded her cheeks to "minimize the puffiness" and darkened her neck so that "if she keeps her head up the folks won't see her double chin." Tastefully dressed in simple Sally Victor hats and Hannah Troy dresses ("We figure they...
...nose itself-a prominent organ-stands out from the face with an inquiring, anxious air, as though it were sniffing for some good thing in the wind; the eyes, dark, full and deeply set, are penetrating, but full of an expression which almost amounts to tenderness . . . One would say that, although the mouth was made to enjoy a joke, it could also utter the severest sentence which the head could dictate, but that Mr. Lincoln would be ever more willing to temper justice with mercy . . ." That is the way Foreign Correspondent William Howard Russell sketched President Lincoln...
Admitted to the bar at 23, he was the youngest lawyer in France. A student-days fight with royalists gave Mendès-France 1) a permanently splayed nose and 2) an urge to go into politics. Only 25, but wearing a mustache to appear older, he was elected a Deputy in 1932-the youngest in the Chamber of Deputies...
Personal Traits: A chunky, fast-moving man with dwindling black hair, a broad nose, a sardonic look and a perpetual suggestion of 5-o'clock shadow, Mendès-France enjoys a pleasant family life (with an Egyptian-born wife, (see cut), sons...
There are the misadventures of Catcher Kelly in Slide, Kelly, Slide! But something was the matter Sure I couldn't see the ball And the second one that came in Broke my muzzle, nose...