Word: nosedive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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He has voted against reciprocal tariffs, the Court bill, Reorganization, the Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Moratorium, permanent CCC, Wages-&-Hours, AAA II, both the 1937 and 1938 Relief bills. He explains his opposition mostly on grounds of economy, but he voted to override the President's veto of the...
Bull Fiddler. Koussevitzky has taken few of life's bumps. One good reason has been Natalya Konstantinovna Koussevitzkaya, his pleasant, portly, beak-nosed Russian wife. Koussevitzky is her career. Once a sculptress, she has not only spent the best part of her life smoothing out her husband's...
Doll-like, repulsively big-nosed, black-bearded and bespectacled, Lautrec loved circuses, dance halls, race tracks. Several brothels came to regard him as a kind of mascot. His home and native element was Montmartre. Biographer Mack has tried conscientiously but has failed to reanimate this legendary quarter. He ploughs without...
TIME Sept. 5 refers to David Lasser as "long-nosed" (p. 9), to Al Smith as "red of nose" (p. 11), and to Philadelphia's Coroner Charles Hersch as "scythe-nosed" (p. 12). Why should a newsmagazine such as TIME concern itself with descriptions of men's "schnozzles...
Moussorgsky-Cailliet: Pictures at an Exhibition (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor: 8 sides). Ever since titanic, rum-nosed Russian Composer Moussorgsky wrote an innocent little set of piano pieces called Pictures at an Exhibition, other musicians have been busy dressing it up in fancy and irrelevant orchestrations. Most famous...