Word: nosedness
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The cash register was invented in 1879 by James Ritty, a Dayton, Ohio, saloonkeeper. He was bothered by his bartenders' sticky fingers lifting undue moneys from the till. On a trip to the old country he nosed around the ship's boiler room, noted the indicator that counted the propeller...
The great yellow curtain dropped on the first act of La Boheme at a special matinee given last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. A very special audience there for a special occasion burst into applause, prolonged it until the only performer left bowing on the stage was pretty...
The University trio dropped its first match in the indoor polo league when the 101st Artillery mallet men nosed out the Crimson riders by a scant half point in the Commonwealth Armory on Saturday night, 8 to 7 1-2. A foul called on Captain R. A. Pinkerton '27 was...
Miss Foster plays a gypsy miss who falls in love with a young man in a clean shirt and plus fours. Her hook-nosed grandmother fulminates gutterally against her marrying an effete outsider, and his parents kick and scream at the conception of a lady tramp entering their highly starched...
In Editor Payne's apartment a few minutes later the telephone rang. Over the wire came the voice of the reporter, telling how he had been refused entrance to the Del Fey Club; how Thaw sat within, busy with his tiddling, all unseen by the press. "I'll...