Word: nestful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even these thoughtful improvements will instill respect for law & order into cinemaddicts so long as the underworld, however deplorable, is displayed as brilliantly efficient. In this picture, almost all the admirable members of the police department of an anonymous city are destroyed in their effort to capture one small nest of desperadoes who are handicapped by drink. Nor is this the only respect in which malfeasance is shown to have advantages over civic virtue. The members of the gang are able to associate with Jean Harlow which, to a village audience, should sufficiently excuse their defections. The chief of police...
...bird's nest fryer is an imposing contraption used for frying Julienne potatoes into the shape of a brown derby. Nobody knows...
...Francisco, Peter Breckenridge fractured several ribs in the following manner: He mounted his mule, set out for a ride. The mule stepped upon a nest of yellow jackets; the yellow jackets began to sting the mule, causing it to kick desperately. One of the kicks came in contact with a guy wire attached to a pole; the force of the kick made the pole fall down. A power wire strung on the pole fell on the mule, electrocuting it instantly; whereupon the mule fell over, landed on its rider, fractured the ribs of Peter Breckenridge...
Should the wasps build their nests low and close to the water, there would be no freshets that summer. Contrary to the Bermuda spider, should the nest be built high, then look out for freshets...
Reporters cast a speculative eye last week at General Pera Zivkovitch. King Alexander's permanent Premier. Wilhelm of Hohenzollern used to refer to Belgrade as "that nest of assassins." No one has ever accused him openly, but it is a well-known Belgrade legend that 28 years ago Lieut. Pera Zivkovitch was the young officer who unlocked a back door in the palace of his Sovereigns, King Alexander Obrenovitch & Queen Draga, and let in the assassins who killed them in their sleep, thus allowing King Peter I, Alexander's father, to ascend the throne...