Word: nosedness
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Such an irresistible affection for the human scene, communicating itself at once to the audience, has been at the bottom of much great clowning. On this basis, Jimmy Durante builds a ludicrous structure of many ramifications. His less discerning admirers have been apt to call him a big-nosed, uproarious...
* Long-nosed, nonexistent authority on nasology, out of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy.
The figures were conservative. Including bookmakers' turnovers, the total ran well above $200 million. Dog racing now outdraws even soccer, has nosed out horse racing as Britain's most popular sport. Like tea-drinking, bitter beer and understatement, it has become a national habit.
Bald, well-nosed Lord McGowan, 69, has sometimes been called the dictator of British industry. An office boy who rose to chairman the gigantic Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., he is also Britain's most persuasive and outspoken champion of cartels. To touring U.S. bigwigs, Lord McGowan has deprecated the...
A bent-winged, big-nosed Corsair fighter slid down the South Pacific sky to the Bougainville runway. A balding, disgruntled pilot hopped out. Marine Major Gregory Boyington had just shot down his 25th Jap plane, over Rabaul.