Word: nest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 22, third son of the 32nd U. S. President, Harvard senior; and Ethel du Pont, 20, eldest daughter of retired Powdermaker Eugene du Pont, niece of Powdermakers Lammot, Pierre Samuel and Irenée du Pont; at Owls Nest, Greenville, Del., where Franklin Jr. was a week-end guest. Miss du Pont announced that their June wedding would not be at the White House...
...Chairman James C. Quigley confidently filed for the nomination, announced that after winning it he would withdraw any time Senator Norris asked him to. Dazed and dejected were Democratic regulars when they counted their primary votes, discovered that a political cuckoo named Terry Carpenter had thrust himself into their nest with the combined support of Townsendites, Coughlinites, Share-Our-Wealthers and Germans grateful for a speech he once made in the U. S. House defending Adolf Hitler...
...improved, became fiercely partisan for his old chief Franklin Roosevelt, rang with colorful invective. Last week a rare journalistic accolade was bestowed on Columnist Hugh Johnson when his running mate, freckle-faced Westbrook Fegler. who has been at columning some eleven years, leaned out of his crow's nest across the World-Telegram's ''folio page" to give the newcomer a friendly hail, pay him a well-deserved compliment...
...Midsummer Night Madness he wrote a series of subtle, melodious, highly-polished stories that pictured the disorder of civil war-wild chases across country, confused fighting, chance love affairs between battles-set against serene Irish landscapes beautifully described. In A Nest of Simple Folk he wrote an historical novel that covered the period from 1854 to the Easter rebellion of 1916; in Countess Markievicz he turned his cadenced prose to a biography of a picturesque Dublin aristocrat who joined the rebels, was sentenced to death, and saluted in one of Yeats' loveliest poems...
...vicious spout swung inland from the bay off Swansea, Wales, struck a hillside, gutted a row of houses, washed 8,000 tons of earth, rock, debris and human beings to the bottom of the slope. Once a waterspout hit a White Star liner headon, doused the crow's nest, slopped tons of water on the decks, wrecked the bridge and chartroom, flooded cabins. Five years ago Bordeaux housewives reaped a harvest of small fish swept up from the River Garonne into a water twister, carried inshore and deposited wriggling in the streets...