Word: nest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fishing fleet. A friend said he had been asked to go, that Girl Pat was bound for the West Indies where Osborne intended to sell her before seeking adventure in the U. S. Other rumors: Girl Pat was searching for buried pirate treasure; she had become a love nest, and feminine laughter rippled through the portholes. Last week as Girl Pat vanished over the horizon an amateur radio operator claimed he picked up the following message: "On board Girl Pat, somewhere on the Atlantic. We are honest and peaceful men, and now we are free...
...rated the Medal of Honor. On July 18, 1918, the 28th infantry of the A.E.F.'s First division found itself in a tough frontline sector near Soissons. Between it and a troop of French Colonials on its left was a jutting mound and rock quarry from which a nest of German machine guns spat a relentless enfilade fire. Seeing that the U. S. flank would soon be shredded to bits, Lieutenant Parker ordered his platoon and a group of wandering, disorganized French Colonials to follow him up the hill. Few minutes later Lieutenant Parker and his men had effectively...
...country Congregationalist preacher, Charles Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, 39, grew up on a Neponset farm, left the University of Illinois during the War to join the Marines. At Belleau Wood he captured single-handed 27 Germans in a machine-gun nest, was later severely wounded, returned to the U. S. as a first lieutenant with the Distinguished Service Cross, the Croix de Guerre, the American Navy Medal. In 1926 he jumped from law school into State's Attorney Crowe's office as assistant prosecutor, curried favor among good Government groups by his fearless campaign against Chicago kidnappers, bombers, murderers...
Scouting planes told him that Ethiopians were in force on the caravan route due north of Gabredarre. He tried a flank attack along the Giana Gobbo River to the left and hit a hornets' nest. Italians charged time & again up impossible gullies, always to fall back before a blistering fire...
With President Conant speaking at the Tercentenary meeting at Sanders next Friday, consternation was great at the discovery of a fullfledged nest in the southeast wall and a host of winged inmates taking their morning flyer around the rostrum. Muddled maintenance men had to rip up a section of the plaster and lathing before the conquest...