Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talked with Ornithologist A. H. Chisholm who told him about the Bower Bird, the bird which paints the inside of its nest. He was delighted with a luncheon which I hurriedly arranged, where he met Ministers of the State-men who were former speakers in the State House Assembly and the Federal Senate...
...isolation is broken down by the alchemical tricks of his more or less than human friends. The white rat, the tip of whose brain has been removed, can still show his master how gallant, how thoughtful a lover he can be to the soft white beauty who builds a nest of newspapers in the desk. Vicious, the little green parrot, loves to lie under the Doctor's coat when he goes to the symphony; warm and still, she chews his tie, his shirt. Only once, frightened at something, did she begin to talk. The man sitting next the Doctor...
...Discussing the nest of acanthus leaves round the fat figure 5 in the corners he writes: "No merest tyro in the draughting-room of a wallpaper plant that catered to the Wisconsin Scandinavian trade would be allowed to combine shapes in this brutal and reckless fashion." The 5 bothers him particularly. He reproduces its black bulk on one page followed for comparison by seven 55 from the fonts of celebrated designers. Overleaf is a little drawing of a fat harridan leaning against the Treasury's figure while a slender nymph stands by a modern 5 of Dwiggins design. Then...
...receipt short-sighted pronouncements on economic problems make it almost certain that Mr. Smith himself is not a possible Democratic standard bearer. Many will therefore suspect that because of a feeling that Mr. Roosevelt, too, is headed for defeat, he is turning his attention to feathering a Cabinet nest under some other congenial Democratic president. But the apparent sincerity of his outspoken concern for the success of his party will probably carry even more weight with his former supporters and with those who are now content to follow the teetering Roosevelt bandwagon, only because the New York governor...
...together without telling their respective husband and wife anything about it. Mr. Loftus, finding two homes more expensive than one, steals his wife's jewelry to pay the bills. Mrs. Loftus calls in a detective to find the jewelry and he goes right on to find the secret love nest. One rather suspects he knew about it even before the play started, because he's the kind of detective that does known everything and, besides, he is acted by the author himself. He persuades the cuckolded pair to "play it my way" and succeeds in getting the goods...