Word: noses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always does his best sparring against his leading ladies and in this picture he has two of them to threaten. He hits neither and only kicks the one who deserves it (Virginia Bruce). She is a lady of patrician manners and gutter instincts, attracted to Cagney by his potato nose and inflated ear. When he has these improved by a plastic surgeon, she likes him less; on the night of his fight for the lightweight championship she is planning to sail for Havana with another admirer. Cagney hears about it in the ring. "Call me a taxi," he tells...
Readers of Time magazine were profoundly shocked a few weeks ago by a photograph of a man whose upper jaw, nose, and cheeks were missing; the photograph was from a little book called "The Horror of It," published by a group of pacifists to show the real, unheroic, revolting side of war. Pictures and scraps of poetry gleaned from the work of soldiers compose the book. It comes up to the standard of ghoulish horror which Time's picture promised, and it is admittedly not pleasant; it might even be condemned as morbid if there were not a saving grace...
Warren Gamaliel Harding, U. S. President under whose nose graft & corruption flourished, lay monumentally entombed at Marion, Ohio. Albert Bacon Fall, released last month from the New Mexico State Penitentiary, was a sick, broken old man at his Three Rivers (N. Mex.) ranch. He is sitting up a few hours each...
...Jackson. Tenn.. a small chunk of ice whisked from a fruit express, cut off Edward Smith's nose...
...more time by wiping the resin off his gloves on the referee's shirt. Then, steadied, he resumed his fearful slashing of Battalino's face for ten rounds, stabbing precisely, murderously, at length wearily. Again the ring canvas was red with Battalino's blood from nose, lips, eyes, scalp. Again Battalino kept wading forward, always forward, to the end. Again it was Petrolle's hand which the referee held up, though this time on a close decision and not for a technical knockout of the grim, game, gory Battalino...