Word: nosedness
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Shortly after the Civil War an undersized, red-headed youngster, son of a local newspaper editor and Confederate veteran, used to be known around Lynchburg, Va. as "Pluck" because, with eyes blacked and nose bloody, he had a dogged way of fighting on & on against awful odds. Last week the...
¶ Martin John Insull, gaunt, long-nosed brother of Athenian Samuel Insull, was persuaded to leave his $20-a-week boarding house in Orillia, Ont. last week and journey 86 mi. south to Toronto to be arrested. On arrival he was introduced to Detective Sergeant Ewing, shook hands heartily. The...
Beneath its crop of curly reddish hair the round pug-nosed face of Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long of Louisiana glared pugnacious defiance across the Senate Chamber at Virginia's famed Carter Glass. The bill that "won't go through before March 4" was Senator Glass's...
Along the Panama coast he left his impress. There still is a Caledonia Bay and a Puerto Escocés. The San Blas Indians occasionally breed a blond child. When the San Blas and Choco medicine men want to carve a really imposing fetish on a medicine cane, they give...
Headmaster Stearns, a tall, thin, large-nosed pedagog who had graduated from Amherst and taught at Hill School, brought to Andover two things: an austere determination to maintain pure intellectualism against the encroachments of vocational education; and much zeal for arousing alumni interest in the school. He resisted tinkering with...