Word: nestful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without indigestion and stayed up so late at Fort Belvedere (their base of operations 22 mi. from London) that insomnia is out of the question. Last week, smart Prince George performed one of his rare public acts, set literary London by the ears, stirred up a hornet's nest of controversy. Taking as his text what he called "sex novels" Prince George announced: "I am sure that Dr. Samuel Johnson would have quickly sickened, as I have sickened, of novels which only exist on a disproportion ate interest in sex. I have read dozens of famous novels, many...
...following spring the vengeful conquistadors raze the city, build a Spanish town, with streets squared "and the church conspicuous." Spanish settlers follow with their goats, babies, greasy pots. Old Eagle Bernal sickens to remember how, for all the conquistadors' labor, they only succeeded in fouling a paradisaical nest. The Author. Born in Chicago in 1892, Archibald MacLeish dates the beginning of his life from 1923, when with his wife and two children he sailed for France to write the poems he wanted to write. Before this second birth he had studied at Yale, Harvard Law School, practiced...
...made that war necessary and are doing all in their power to bring on the next. I can't help but feel that people like Carrie Chapman Catt, Jane Addams. Dr. Fosdick and Rabbi Wise were the murderers of a brave squad that was cut down before a machinegun nest at Chevieres...
...accepts all hardships calmly and only squeals once, when she topples over a precipice and is barely saved by a ragged rope. The final test of her imperturbability comes when she is kidnapped by a yodeling athlete in a loin cloth who swings her up to his nest at the top of a tree and turns out to be Tarzan of the Apes...
...Nest. Poet Jeffers' birthplace was Pittsburgh, in 1887. From North Ireland had come his paternal grandfather. His father, an LL.D. learned in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, had married an orphan 23 years, his junior. John Robinson Jeffers was the first fruit; the second. Hamilton Jeffers, now engaged in astronomical work at Lick Observatory, came seven years later...