Word: snooting
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...defense of their company's founder rushed many another Bethlehem stockholder. A little man named Souermundt leaped from his chair, snatched off his spectacles and shrilled: "My nose has been punched before but I'm always ready for a fight! Punch him on the snoot, Mr. Schwab! Punch him on the snoot...
...statement of regret, no message of condolence issued last week from William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, who once won notoriety and Irish votes by promising to "bust King George in the snoot" if that monarch did not mind his own business. With the submergence of Chicago's blatant Mayor in 1931, the Irish Question seemed to have become virtually extinct in U. S. politics. Last week a dying gasp was heard in the U. S. House of Representatives...
...news break is like a rainbow in the sky. But this column-writing business is another story. Anybody who thinks a column a day, year in and year out, must be just too much fun for anything, can step right into my office for a bust in the snoot...
When George V learned last week that William Hale (I'll-bust-King-George-on-the-snoot) Thompson had been defeated for re-election as Mayor of Chicago (TIME, April 13), His Majesty chuckled...
...political fate of the Chicago mayor whose slogan was "Keep King George Out of Chicago," and who had threatened to "bust King George on the snoot," was front-page material in London last week. Nearly every paper in the city reported the defeat of William Hale Thompson (TIME, April 13), in page-wide banners and lengthy editorials. Even in Paris the headline of La Liberté was BIG BILL BEATEN...