Some time toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs. Wilson stood face to face discussing, in impassioned voices, whether Mrs. Wilson had any right to mention Daisy’s name.
‘Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!’ shouted Mrs. Wilson. ‘I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai – ‘
Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby. Chapter 2, tempers flare at Gatsby’s party, fueled by the bootleg booze. Tom, a vicious brute, breaks the nose of the cheap and vulgar Myrtle.