Word: nestful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ulcerated tooth kept Secretary of Agriculture Hyde off the stump. After talking himself hoarse in Connecticut, Secretary of Labor Doak rested up at "Notre Nid" ("Our Nest"), his Potomac home, before invading West Virginia and Illinois. Alice Roosevelt Longworth was to make her single contribution to the Hoover campaign in the form of a speech at Indianapolis in mid-October. Calvin Coolidge, whose Hoover appeals have so far been only in writing, was scheduled to raise his voice for the party in Manhattan Oct. 11. Republican headquarters had 260 volunteer stumpsters of high & low degree to turn loose...
When Governor James Rumsey Beverley advocated birth control to check the fast-growing population of Puerto Rico he stirred up a wasp's nest of indignation. But Puerto Ricans regard Nature's population-reducing visits with fatalistic equanimity. Every few years a hurricane kills a few hundred of them, destroys their homes and crops. They name the hurricane for the saint on whose day it occurred, then forget about it. When on the day of San Eusebio last week the sea became still under a windless sky, natives were suddenly reminded of the hours preceding the hurricane of San Felipe...
Like its journalistic forbear. Ballyhoo concentrates on kidding advertisements. When Comedian Howard is chief concentrator, it is funny. There are few good tunes (one of them: "While We Have Bromo Seltzer in Our Love Nest") to make Ballyhoo another Band Wagon, which it tries hard...
...throbbing only when she is quick with child. The sensation becomes uncomfortable only as the woman's term nears its end. The end of pregnancy is, for the average woman with her first child, 18 hours of painful ordeal-16 hours during which her child struggles from its nest, 1 hour 45 minutes while it wriggles into independent existence, and 15 minutes while the new mother rids herself of fetal accessories. By this time the woman is very tired, often unconscious. The muscular interactions of the parturient woman and her child during delivery are highly important to the well...
...Niven Busch of Mary Roberts Rinehart's story. Comic relief in mystery stories is so easy to do that it is seldom done as satisfactorily as when a policeman herein finds fault with a nosey reporter. "I'm the Morning Eagle," says the reporter. "Go feather your nest," the policeman says, and throws him off the porch. Joan Blondell's round eyes give her, the astonished appearance proper to a female detective. George Brent, an actor currently being groomed as a competitor to Clark Gable, blunders about pleasantly as the police sergeant...