Word: nosedness
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The 2,000-ton Rebel destroyer Jupiter nosed in between the Jose Luis Diez and the Gibraltar shore. Convinced now that the blockade could not be run. Commander Juan Castro changed his course, ordered the ship back to British waters.
Musing on fighting words that could be and had been legally sent through the mails. General Hugh Samuel Johnson, himself no tyro at invective and abuse, suggested a few more: '"asymptote" ("a daisy of a word"), "parasang," "Cush-ping Dishpit." ("an evil sound and no meaning"), "yellow-bellied sap...
One fine spring-fever day in 1929 a high-keyed, hawk-nosed, 28-year-old publisher named George Macy paid a well-plotted call on a Wall Street broker named Jack O. (for nothing) Straus. Publisher Macy was in search of an angel. He outlined for Broker Straus a heavenly...
U. S. diplomacy, blinking before a Rising Sun in the Far East and plagued by strange new stars in the political firmament of Europe, last week set a hopeful course under the moon of the Caribbees. A sleek black peace ship, the Grace Liner Santa Clara, steamed southward toward ancient...
The aplomb of His Majesty King Ananda Mahidol of Siam, aged 13, was first manifest two years ago when the snub-nosed, sloe-eyed little monarch requested a franc from a cameraman for chocolate before he would pose at his private school in Switzerland. The photographer demurred: "Chocolate might give...