Word: nest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means a Bolshevik, Mr. Morrison always turns up at Council meetings in an impeccably pressed tailcoat. He has been called "precise, businesslike, even stodgy, the perfect administrator." On taking office he found in his lap a nest egg of ?2,000,000, salted away in London County Council's treasury by Conservatives. Last week Perfect Administrator Morrison, having run through his nest egg, made London householders wince by taking steps to raise their rates (taxes) to the extortionate percentage of seven shillings in the pound (31%). Said "Next Prime Minister"* Morrison: "The money has gone in treating...
...Panama-Pacific Liner Pennsylvania logged the following incidents: Her surgeon died of a stroke. The engine-room storekeeper died of pneumonia. Both were buried at sea. Brooding because the boatswain had taken his bedroom slippers, the ship's lookout fell 40 ft. from the crow's nest, arose unharmed. A 40-ft. whale became so firmly impaled on the Pennsylvania's bow that the captain had to put his ship astern to dislodge it. The liner also rushed to the aid of a freighter, took off a wiper who had a chicken's wishbone lodged...
Last week Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History received its first news from the expedition which rich, eccentric Templeton Crocker of San Francisco is conducting in the South Sea islands aboard his big yacht Zaca. The news: Gygis alba, a white, gull-like bird, builds no nest for her solitary, mottled egg but plops it neatly into the fork of a slim tree-branch. She covers the egg with her breast but leaves it occasionally to find food. The young Gygis may, during mother's absence, break out of the shell to find itself alone, teetering...
...British correspondent who managed to see him at Munich, Realmleader Hitler declared with rising inflection: "If anyone attacks Germany, he will fall into a hornet's nest because we love freedom as much as we love peace. . . . We give assurance that no pressure, no need, no force will ever lead us to sacrifice our honor, or the right to equality with other nations! I regard it as indispensable to announce this...
HORNETS' NEST-Helen Ashton-Macmillan ($2.50). A clever, tightly-constructed story of complications in the lives of three doctors, the staff of a nursing home and the inhabitants of an English provincial town resulting from a swab left in the incision after an appendectomy. Miss Ashton, whose Dr. Serocold treated of 24 hours in the life of a physician, was herself a War nurse, holds a medical degree from the London Hospital. She writes with clean, surgical precision. Her description of the appendectomy has the brutal clarity of a hospital painting by the late Thomas Eakins...