Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifteen years later Blum stood at the apex of his career-the Socialist leader of the Popular Front. He had never liked the Communists but, uneasily, he allied himself with them against the rising menace of fascism. His long legs and long nose, stringy mustache and thick-lensed spectacles, wide-brimmed hat and spats were targets of caricaturists of Right and Left. Once Royalist hoodlums dragged him from his car and beat him up; he refused to prosecute them. In 1936 the Popular Front carried the elections. Leon Blum took the premiership...
...newspapers. Nevertheless, such stories as the debate between Paul Blanshard and Father George H. Dunne at Harvard in February over the political power of the church are virtually ignored (only the Globe printed a story on the debate). Such sacred cows, real or fancied, tend to blunt the nose-for-news of even the best reporters...
When he finally got around to putting the orchestra through Falstaff early last week, he found the orchestral parts full of wrong notes. Stopping the music, he would summon flutists and violists to the podium, hold the offending scores up to his nose so he could read them, then mock the publisher ("Viva la casa Ricordi...
From the acres of advertisements used to push these products, FTC picked such claims as these for Anahist: "New Miracle Drug stops cold symptoms in a single day"; "Now say Goodbye to colds with Anahist"; "Prevents sneezing, coughing and running noses." For Resistab: "Kills colds in one day"; ".. . To guard my family against colds." For Kriptin: "Kill a cold at the very start-kill it completely-not in days but in hours"; "No more sneezing -stopped-up nose-aches and pains-no more miserable days in bed trying to 'outlast' a cold...
...malt house in 1921 and reached the top four years ago when his older brother, Adolphus, the company president, died of cancer. A barrel-chested World War II colonel, "Gussie" Busch, now 51, is a throwback to Grandfather Adolphus. He has a shrewd eye for horses, a nose that can sniff the quality of hops, and he likes nothing better than the periodic Schlachtfeste at which the family, clad in Bavarian costumes, consumes quantities of sausages, pork cuts and ribs washed down with Budweiser...