Word: nestful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three days later I was driven back to Englewood to attend, on crutches, the sessions of the coroner's jury. So I learned what the outside world had been thinking about our little Utopia. They not only thought it a 'free love nest,' but the village horse-doctor on the jury thought we had set fire to it ourselves, to get the insurance. Also, and worse yet, they thought we had arranged our affairs in such a way that we could beat the local tradesmen out of the money we owed them. It was a matter...
...Free State this speech may have made President de Valera seem a bigger man, but at Geneva it stirred a hornet's nest among the small minority of small nations, such as Switzerland and Panama, still hostile to Russia's entry. The Swiss Government, strongly conservative, grew so excited that Swiss reporters at Berne conjectured fantastically, "If Russia is admitted we may resign and the League may have to move out of Switzerland." It took M. Barthou, Sir John and the Italian Chief Delegate, tall, hollow-cheeked Baron Pompeo Aloisi, about 24 hours to get the drafting work...
This year's most significant Nazi propaganda trial abruptly backfired last week. For some months the Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment has been telling Germany what a nest of swinish rascals and swindlers the Prussian Ministry of Public Welfare was before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor. Under the shrieking headline "HOW PUBLIC MONEY WAS SQUANDERED!" Dr. Heinrich Hirtsiefer, ousted Public Welfare Minister, was denounced for indulging in an orgy of buying honorary degrees for himself from German universities and treating his colleagues shamelessly to beer...
...hoarding its gifts, pinching its membership pennies, banking its small profits from admissions and borrowing wisely among its friends, Chicago's Art Institute, unlike most other U. S. museums, has managed to accumulate a $600,000 nest egg for a new building program. Last week the Institute announced plans for the first of three major additions which will eventually make the Institute a huge quadrangle of art between Michigan Avenue and the Outer Drive. No Chicago wiseacre was surprised to learn that the winner of the design competition was the Chicago architectural firm of Holabird & Root...
...Vienna last week Chancellor Dollfuss' official Wiener Zeitung stirred up a hornet's nest of official German denial by printing that Old Paul had just undergone a rejuvenation operation...