Word: nosedive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To be Assistant to the Secretary (at $10,000 a year) in charge of Neutrality operations having to do with shipping, tall, knife-nosed, wealthy Basil Harris quit his vice-presidency of U. S. Lines in Manhattan. The better to watch over U. S. ports, he also became Commissioner of...
When a man is perforated by a bullet, the bullet does not always go into or through him in a straight track, even when the holes where the bullet came in and 'went out are in a straight line. A sharp-nosed bullet is easily deflected by ribs or...
As Bramwell Booth aged, the Army grew more prosperous but less productive. In 1929 his subordinates finally ousted him after a bitter legal battle, elected Chief of Staff Edward John Higgins as General. In 1934 the Booth dynasty was revived with the election of masterful, hawk-nosed Evangeline Cory Booth...
>At Sorel, Quebec the freighter Königsberg, cargoing zinc oxide to Canadian consignees, received instructions, as did many other German vessels, to full-steam home before she could unload. Defying Canadian Revenue Department orders to stay put until she had done so, she cut her mooring lines, nosed off...
Then Cinemactress West suggested as a likely convert to MRA her coming costar, raffish W. C. Fields. "Give it to him in a bottle and he'll go for it," she told Dr. Buchman, promised, "If you reform Bill I'll let him win me in our next...