Word: nosedness
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The NRA was a triple Godsend to John Llewellyn Lewis. First it enabled him to "organize" coal fields that had not been unionized, to increase the members of his United Mine Workers from 300,000 to 650,000 in a few months. Second, NRA provided a new force to compel...
In 1775 he married Josefa Bayeu, sister of an influential painter, who unobtrusively bore him 20 children (only one of whom reached maturity) and who as unobtrusively died when she was through. Shortly after his marriage, through his brother-in-law he got a commission to draw cartoons for tapestries...
Year ago the Murray trustees completed plans for the John Murray Expedition. Last August the Mabahiss, 140-ft. trawler lent by the Egyptian Government, nosed out of an Alexandria dock, slipped through the Suez Canal, down the length of the Red Sea, finally emerged into the Indian Ocean. An echo...
One day last week an impatient, high-nosed lady with flashing dark eyes paced the deck of the steamer Rumania in Istanbul harbor. She was Mme Zahra Lilie Couyoumdjoglou, wife of a Bagdad date merchant, whose great adventure had become a sad denouement. For months in Athens she had befriended...
¶Sallow, pug-nosed, swaggering Welker Cochran, San Francisco billiardist: 400-to-139, with a high run of 217, his play-off match in the international 18.2 balk line billiards tournament, against skinny Erich Hagenlacher of Germany; in Chicago.