Word: nestful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pair of American parula warblers sculptured in porcelain. Can it be that the Eisenhowers are bird watchers and that these warblers are their favorites? Incidentally, we never see the parula around here. Probably because of the absence of usnea moss, with which it pins up its little basketlike nest with its side entrance. I used to see them in such nests in the swamps down South...
...Suez Canal Co., which has been a hen without a nest since Egypt nationalized its big ditch, last week voted itself another career. In Paris, founder stockholders formally launched, the company into new business worlds as a French investment trust corporation. The Suez Canal Co. will invest $2,800,000 in French companies digging for oil in Algerian Sahara, and already owns a 30% chunk of the planned English Channel tunnel project. Other projects under consideration: oil ventures in Canada, iron deposits in North Africa...
Four Winds (by Thomas W. Phipps) has to do with an immensely rich, exceedingly harassed, many-times-married heiress. All about her Palm Beach house are nest-featherers and heiress-fleecers: aunts and doctors and private secretaries, former and future husbands. The heiress herself is usually up and about by midafternoon, a sort of party-girl Ophelia given to the champagne shakes. Then a visiting poet takes her for a day in the sunshine and bids her go away and find herself...
...lampoon the stolidity of a pair of English industrialists without being in the least unkind or unlikable. And shapely Joan Greenwood is absolutely perfect as the rebellious daughter of the industrialist who employs our hero. She manages to portray the peaches and cream English type wanting to make a nest, yet at the same time a delightfully seductive sophisticate. One of the best minor roles in the film is carried by Vera Hope as a stalwart and outspoken labor organizer whose femininity shows through now and then...
...close police pal Gerhard Raebiger, he removed fuses from some 8,000 dud bombs, some 10,000 grenades. Through the years of reconstruction he was on call day and night, sometimes working 48 hours at a stretch on some particularly ticklish job. Once, when rubble removers uncovered a nest of three blockbusters smack in the middle of a heavily populated apartment district, he shoveled away the rubble himself to get at them; then for 18 hours he sweated out the delicate job of taking the fuses out of the lurking monsters. In May 1952, Stephan and Raebiger won the West...