Word: nest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seeker after journalistic dynamite; his daily feature, "Take It From Me," is an innocuous collection of jokes, quizzes, fragments of news and "Thoughts While Shaving," and it is published on the comic page. O'Hara said he had no intention of stirring up a hornet's nest when he reflected (while shaving) last month that both Harvard's newly elected President Nathan Marsh Pusey and Senator Joe McCarthy live in the town of Appleton, Wis. (seat of Lawrence College, which Pusey has served as president for the last nine years...
...Hemingway-feudal' "). After two fights ("I said, 'Boys, don't kill anyone in the apartment; it would be awfully messy' "), McNeill was carted off to the hospital for scalp repairs. Diana conceded that possibly her husband was in the right (". . . the defiled nest and all that sort of thing, you know") but, even so, ordered him to pack his things and move out. To the reporters she explained that her own black eye had resulted from a domestic tiff four days earlier ("I don't mind being punched. Noel Coward said that women should...
...F.D.R. No man is better equipped by experience than Thayer Lindsley to launch the Yukon project. The publicity-shy Ventures president has been one of the most successful operators in Canadian mining ever since he went to Canada from the U.S. in the early '20s with a nest egg of $30,000 in cash. Lindsley, a Harvard classmate of Franklin Roosevelt, got his initial capital and mining know-how operating an iron mine in Oregon, but it was in Canada that he came into...
...Mediocrity Magnified." CinemaScope will abolish, at one stroke, the art of the film as it has been practiced since that memorable day in 1907 when Rescued from an Eagle's Nest was released and people hurried in by the dozens to watch a baleful old bird, unmistakably stuffed, clutch a helpless infant in its claws and fly away to eat it up. Gone is the viewer's sense of eavesdropping on activities that are, after all, going on in another room. In CinemaScope, the illusion in the other room outflanks the beholder in his theater seat and overwhelms...
Weather-Beaten. In Ithaca, N.Y., Er nest Johnson, meteorologist...