Word: noses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boards as 13 strapping farmers set out to see who was the best cornhusker in the U. S. Drought had made Palmer's stand of corn sparse for a husking bee- barely 60 bu. to the acre-and caramel-colored dust rose from underfoot to get in your nose, but there were not many weeds and that makes for fast husking...
...April, 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His face was babyish . . . despite his wrinkles and the red spectacle-dents on the slopes of his nose. He was not fat but he was exceedingly well fed. ..." This description was intended by Author Sinclair ("Red") Lewis, who created the character and published the novel Babbitt in 1922, to represent a type of U. S. businessman. A vast reading public immediately accepted George Follansbee Babbitt...
...London so-called humorous weekly), whose "darling child" he has been dubbed. With Versifier Owen Seaman, Artist George Frederick Arthur Belcher, Herbert supplies what humor still persists in that otherwise respectable Tory sheet. Herbert is married, has one son, three daughters. With a quizzical expression, bright eyes, a beaked nose, he looks like what he is: an intelligent humorist. Other books: The House-by-the-River, Plain Jane, She Shanties, The Trials of Topsy, Misleading Cases...
...strange chance a young lady of quality should happen upon a copy of the current Police Gazette ("the leading illustrated sporting journal in the world") she might glance casually at the photos of showgirls and boxers, wrinkle her nose over some of the advertisements, then in boredom toss the pink sheet aside...
...Stoan), Blackfoot Indian chief, hero of The Silent Enemy (cinema), completed 5 hr. 20 min. of dual flight instruction at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. Instructors, pilots, students stood with upturned chins one day last fortnight watching Long Lance make his first solo. The chins fell agape as his plane, nose down, roared earthward in a power dive, pulled up and over in a perfectly executed loop. Long Lance climbed back into the sky and the dumfounded watchers heard his motor die to a hiss, saw the ship stall, saw it "fall off" on one wing and into what every novice...