Word: nosedness
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While long-nosed Wanda Landowska was giving brilliant, vigorous, scholarly performances of C. P. E. Bach in Toronto last week (see col. 2), Leopold Stokowski was busy in Manhattan with Johann Sebastian Bach's tremendous St. Matthew Passion. He turned it into a weird theatrical spectacle that reminded Bach...
The Kid Scores. La Prensa's poll gave long-nosed Xavier Cugat. captain of the U.S. rumba industry (TIME, Dec. 28, 1942) only eighth place among bandleaders. The winner (pulling more than twice as many votes as his nearest competitor) was a stocky Cuban named Machito ("The Kid"). One...
Yam-nosed, publicity-wise Jimmy Durante let it be known that he was insuring his neb for $50,000.
Button-nosed, publicity-wise Sonya Henie applied to Lloyd's for $250,000 worth of insurance on her last five pairs of skates.
Spud-nosed, publicity-wise W. C. Fields, charged with stealing $20,000 worth of ideas from Writer Harry Yadkoe and using them in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, appeared in court with a keg-shaped thermos from which he refueled from time to time.