Word: brood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Driven out by her former protector, the janitor of Harvard Hall, Sarah, Yard eat and mouser extraordinary, is now anticipating a blessed event under the sponsorship of the Stoughton janitor. Sarah has been biologically different of late and a brood of kittens is expected within the next two weeks. Her former protector drove her out, not desiring the confusion and flurry always attendant up on childbirth. The Stoughton janitor, however, a farsighted and economically-minded man, has plans in store for the brood. He will expect them to earn their unkeep by being rented out for mousing throughout the Yard...
...making only $12 and can't make ends meet. ... It is impossible for the boy to go on like he is. ... It is true he works less hours, but what can he do with his spare time? All he can do is sit around and brood about not being able to make a living for his wife and baby...
...wordless thought! Till, suddenly, surpassing wit, Spontaneous meadows spring in it; And I am but a glass between Un-walked in meadows, gold and green. The Author's most famed productions have never met the public eye, are fitter for private ears. Prolific parent of a Rabelaisian brood of limericks, bans mots, parodies, a troop of outrageous, robustious characters of fancy, Oliver St. John Gogarty is a doctor by trade (throat specialist). Now an Irish Senator, he was a bitter enemy of the Republicans, once faced a firing squad but escaped by swimming the Liffey. In gratitude he presented...
...European conflict-and what a conflict!-within a short time. . . . Will the Nazis take Salzburg by force? And if this coup takes place, however it may happen, will Europe let it occur without acting?" In Vienna last week Chancellor Dollfuss, like a chick trying to round up a brood of flustered hens, was trying desperately to get together a political consolidation to fight Naziism. President Wilhelm Miklas had shown him last week the Socialist petition signed by 1,250,000 Austrians, nearly one-third of the electorate, demanding the end of the Dollfuss dictatorship and a convocation of Parliament...
...have made her one up. It looked serious at the time but seven holes farther on Helen Hicks might well have forgotten it because she was four up and it looked as though Virginia Van Wie's game had cracked completely. By lunch time, she had cause to brood about that putt again;.her opponent had cut her lead to two, with a fine four at the 16th and a good putt for another at the 18th. In the afternoon, with the wind dying down, they halved the first hole and Virginia Van Wie won the second, with...