Word: nosedive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before nightfall Lewis' crack at Garner had become a national gag. Bibbers lifted highballs with happy cries of "Well, here goes, you whiskey-drinking, poker-playing, evil old man." Columnists' consensus was that old tomato-nosed John Garner now had the drinking and card-playing vote locked up...
Slim, rich, sharp-nosed Nathan Straus, whose late Cousin Jesse Isidor was Ambassador to France, and whose other cousins Percy and Jack run the big R. H. Macy department store in Manhattan, last week proclaimed proudly to the Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia :
Last week in a small dining room at the U. S. Immigration station on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, these questions & answers started and summarized the most important deportation hearing of the decade. Answerer was Harry Bridges, the long-nosed bony Australian whose power over Pacific longshore labor won...
Like the English adventurers in India for whom the term nabob was invented, craggy-nosed Banker Larkins had little trouble getting his actions legalized. He never held office himself (for $100,000 in 1875 he could have been appointed Senator from West Virginia), instead let others do his dirty work...
Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, 47, was born in London, son of a U. S.-born chairman of Anglo-American Oil Co. Dapper, well-nosed, greying, Bliss is rated as a modernist with a sense of humor. Last month Manhattan heard the world premiere of a Bliss piano concerto, showy, noisy...