Word: nosedness
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When the world's largest ship, S. S. Majestic, nosed down Southampton Water last trip, she carried precious cargo. In the first cabin were Richard Bedford Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada', Novelist Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Violin Prodigy Ruggiero Ricci, Rev. Cyril Argentine Alington, Headmaster of Eton College (see...
Harold Nicolson likes pictures but hates music. Snub-nosed, curly-haired, rosy, he looks a little too pert for his age (46), wears clothes a little too young for him. He knows "everybody" from London to Constantinople.
. . . Extremely interesting articles are punctuated with obnoxious and sarcastic references such as "Big-chinned Mr. Roosevelt," "Big-nosed Ogden L. Mills," "Long-eared Mr. Reed," "Owl-eyed Mr. This," "Widemouthed Mr. That," and so on. What do you find of value in such unwarranted and undignified commentary methods?
Hawk-nosed Lord Wellington used to figure the presence of Napoleon on a battlefield as worth 40,000 men to the French. Observers agreed last week that the presence of white-headed General Hans Kundt, onetime German imperial staff officer and de facto dictator of Bolivia, on the jungle battlefront...
Neighborly and helpful if a bit blatant seemed the San Francisco Public Health Office when the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine met there last summer. Tippling Shriners were invited to have their liquor tested free of charge. The invitation came from Dr. Jacob Casson Geiger, the bald, beak...