Word: nestful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Birger, astute badman and bootlegger of Herrin, Ill., commented last week on the bombing and burning of his gang's love-nest, "Shady Rest" (TIME, Jan. 17). Said he: "This thing would never have happened if it hadn't been for the warrant charging me with murder that kept me from being at home when the Shelton gang called...
...Presbyterians) sought under the leadership of shrewd Conservative Premier George Howard Ferguson to return enough representatives under his banner to permit him to secure repeal of the 0. T. A. and substitute a Government-controlled liquor rationing system. During the campaign Premier Ferguson raised a feminine hornet's nest about his ears by declaring: "Twenty-five years ago a girl would hardly speak to a man who carried a flask, but now a man without a flask is a man without a girl...
...must subject all alike, himself included, to that discipline which is a bond stronger than iron; more impervious than adamant. He must have not only courage and endurance, but also that indefatigable quality called "pluck," and, as well, instinct, that incomprehensible something which takes the bird to its nest in the vast sameness of the prairie, or the bee to its home in the hollow tree hidden in the labyrinth of the forest...
...chapter, highly sanative, on "New American Furniture," which faces squarely the dark facts that the Mayflower had room for only a certain number of knickknacks and that imitations have grown more commendable ever since. Another chapter solves problems for young-marrieds, with a five-year program for feathering the nest. All that is (see adjectives above) in chintzes and cretonnes, flounces and hangings, locks and latches, cupboards and clapboards, rugs and roofs, has passed beneath the avid eye of Decoratrix Seal. She has torn down old houses besides building new ones and adapting odd ones. She has lived thoughtfully enough...
...Ibis Nest--711 Mt. Auburn--The hottest place in town. And funny! Bob Lampoon, Texas Guinan's old side, kick is here with his own serenaders who record for Years and Years. And food! Just try the cellar of the Ibis Nest, it's too good. Arthur, who was formerly with Inc and Inc. is now in charge. All the Princeton men go there...