Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Felton has taken the stump for Prohibition, woman suffrage, maternity laws. She has made many a famed utterance, some of which are: "Our government permits children to many who know no more about raising a family than the loose straws in a last year's bird's nest...
...Greenwich, Conn., a newborn chicken scampered fluffily about 30 years ago, on the estate of James G. Wessels, prominent citizen. Last week this onetime chicken, now a potent Sarah among fowls, cackled loudly, clearly. In its nest Mr. Wessels discovered a newly laid egg. Skeptics asked: "Could a hen that was young in the 90's lay an egg in 1927?" Answered Mr. Wessels: "Here is the egg to prove...
...when she could afford it, she bought a carpet sweeper. Bissel was the most popular make of sweeper. It had (and still has) a revolving brush that picked up lint, bread crumbs, hairpins, cigaret butts, needles, roaches, broom, straws, candy, germs. The matted filth made a capital nest for mice. But broom or sweeper cleaned only the surface of the carpet. To get the deeply imbedded dirt the careful housewife had to lift her carpets each spring, hang them on the clothesline in the back yard and then hope for a tramp to come along and whack the dirt...
Chang Tso-lin is a great lord in the good old way. He favors swallows' nest soup, tugs delightedly at his large ears when pleased, has his own officers or their wives spitted on sharp stakes when displeased, and keeps a likely string of concubines. At Peking, Chang reaffirmed to correspondents his violent antipathy to Bolshevism, and roundly declared that his troops were hastening southward and would drive the Nationalists out of Shanghai. At Shanghai Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek told news- gatherers that "as soon as possible" his armies would press on to capture Peking. Will Chang fight...
...Stanfield, once a millionaire sheep rancher, neglected a bill of a mere thousand dollars? Perhaps one reason is "The Boar's Nest," famed Washington gambling institution closed a year ago, where Mr. Stanfield's poker is said to have cost him some $250,000. In spite of such unfavorable publicity, he leaves Congress with many friends, who admire him as a gentleman of impulses...