Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First scent of the bovine enterprise was whiffed by Princeton men, and simultaneously by the staff of the Daily Princetonian. Proof that "Prince" staffers have a nose for news came when 30-odd barns were discovered not far from the Princeton campus, wherein the manure is mixed, heated, steamed, pulverized, and blasted...
...made it a one-man airline, and he made it pay. Captain Eddie-as he is known around the Eastern system-flew 200,000 miles during his first year as president. He not only poked his nose into every airplane, every ticket office, every hangar and every repair shop, but, in time, left an embodiment of himself in all of them through a series of posters. These bear a picture of him, the words "Captain Eddie Says:"-and various Rickenbacker-ish homilies on the value of thrift, safety and patriotism. Some of his employees refer to the poster picture...
...contagious fads. In the 17th Century, students ranged their drinking companions in a sort of academic hierarchy. A Bachelor meant a lean drunkard, a Bachelor of Law was one "that hath a purple face, inchac't with rubies," a Doctor was one that "hath a red nose." In the igth and soth Centuries, the fashion has been to add the suffixes -agger, -ogger, and -ugger to the initial consonants of all titles of dignity. Thus Queen Victoria was dubbed The Quagger; the Princes of Wales (in the case of both Edward VII and Edward VIII) found themselves Pragger-Waggers...
...Small Doubt. Would Arcaro ride him in the Derby Keen-eyed, banana-nosed Eddie wore the expression of a faintly satisfied but still skeptical banker, still trying to make up his mind about a big loan. Eddie wanted to see what Hill Prince would do in this week's second Experimental at a mile and a sixteenth. "He's just as good as he was last year," Arcaro said. "But he's never had to go more than 6á furlongs in a race. Some people doubt he can go for distance and might hang...
...excellent. His own brilliant musical score has the double virtue of being perfectly appropriate and independently memorable. In his opening scenes, showing civic stuffed shirts unveiling a monument, the speeches come through as squeaky noises that are at once a spoof of the speakers' pomposity and a nose-thumbing Chaplin commentary on the ya-ta-ta of the early talkies. He uses sound again when he swallows a whistle and his squealing hiccups bring dogs and taxicabs...