Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will never become a rich man by being an editor. To be sure, many contacts are made here in our ivy-covered building which pay off in dollars later in life, but on the whole a nose for news does not usually ferret out huge bundles of boodle. Here we should give pause and consider whether we wish to become one who can sign his name to checks for unlimited amounts just for his own amusement or one who must sign his name to checks that will keep his company the best of its kind, large or small...
Today Brando's silk-walled, Japanese-style house atop a hill on Mulholland Drive in Beverly Hills is again a prime tourist attraction, and sightseeing buses nose past it daily. The house remains, however, as much a fortress as it was when Brando took it over in 1961 from the previous occupant, Howard Hughes. Despite, or perhaps because of his renewed flush of popularity, Brando still insists that "privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to; it's an absolute requisite." He still holds to his old credo that "conformity breeds mediocrity." And although...
...Whether it was intentional or not, the resemblance between the food face and that of our President was really incredible. Especially the nose-a hot dog! Terrific...
...everyday use, Rosten provides examples, many with a fond patina of age: chutzpa is a case of "a man who, having killed his mother and father, asks the court for mercy because he is an orphan, poor schlemiel is a man who "falls on his back and breaks his nose." Some lines are cosmic as well as comic: "The rich have heirs, not children." "Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help...
...When a Washington critic said some unpleasant things about the singing talent of his daughter Margaret ("my baby"), he dashed off a letter which said, in part: "I have just finished reading your lousy review. I never met you, but if I do you'll need a new nose and plenty of beefsteak and perhaps a supporter below...