Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week, emasculated beyond recognition. Il Patto a Quattro was ready to receive the squiggled initials (not signatures) of Il Duce and the ambassadors in Rome of Britain, France, Germany. Because Il Patto is the first treaty of world importance hatched by Benito Mussolini since he made Italy his nest, he turned the initialing into a Roman holiday, had loudspeakers stuck up beside the splashing fountains in Rome's public squares, called the Italian Senate. Drama, even frenzy was injected as the senators gathered by news that Germany might refuse to squiggle. Instantly Il Duce put through a telephone...
...course, cannot bear babies despite the romantic notions called couvade, whereby the father writhes in bed when the mother goes through labor. But men may harbor the elements of muscle, skin, hair, cartilage and organs which go to make up a baby. The monstrosity's favorite nest is a testicle. In itself the teratoma is not dangerous. But its parts, being embryonic in nature, may at any provocation burst into a rage of growth. Then a man has a wild cancer sending its buds throughout his system and early recognition of the monstrosity, its prompt abortion...
...that town. His mother, who was no better than she should have been, wrote that she had a job for him in Berlin. When they arrived it turned out that she had no job, she simply wanted them to rent a room in her middle-aged love nest. Pinneberg pulled what wires came to hand and became a salesman in a slave-driving department store. Bunny luckily turned out to be a good manager. They left his shameless mother's flat, got a tiny apartment almost as cheap as it was inconvenient, counted every pfennig twice before they...
...effect; a mirror placed against the pane, so that he got a good full view of himself, excited him neither more nor less. Unlike the Kansas City robin (TIME, March 27) he had no mate in evidence. On the roof just over the window was a half-finished nest with a pile of unused material beside it. We had a theory that in the spring when the house was building, the mate had been caught and died inside, and that the cock robin was obsessed with the thought of getting inside to look for her, but when we opened...
...London one Emelia Tersini, waitress, suing monstrous Boxer Primo Carnera for breach of promise, was awarded ?4,200 ($14,300) on the strength of letters from Carnera saying, "Dear Treasure of Mine. . . . Our little nest of love. . . . You can have trust in your Primo because he loves you with all his heart and soul...