Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just prior to the War, Kaiser Wilhelm II alluded to "Belgrade, that nest of assassins...
...lovely girl disappears. A blood-spattered love-nest is discovered. Her fearfully hacked body is found buried in the bushes. How Thatcher Colt came to the correct but astounding solution may have staggered his district attorney but will not seem unduly out-of-the-way to hardened detective-story readers...
...Lily refused to degrade herself by working, instead became the mistress of a Jewish gambler, enjoyed her self no end. Jane envied her, hoped to be seduced by Bryan, but had no luck. He went away, and the wily Ernest got her. Jane did the sensible thing, married Er nest, regretted it when Bryan came back. She was glad when Ernest was drowned. Bryan was kind to her, liked her, but be came alarmed when he discovered she was determined to be had. Wisely he went away forever, leaving Jane, sorrowing but sensible, to marry faithful Fred...
...developing the ancient Japanese industry, have built in California the only agar plant in the world outside of the Orient. Several years ago Japanese fishermen discovered some agar-bearing sea moss on the Los Angeles Harbor breakwater. Realizing that nostalgic Orientals in the U. S. love bird's-nest soup and knowing that agar-agar is an ingredient, they built a small factory, which Occidentals have taken over, moved, modernized...
Varied were the reasons advanced. Many people noted a nest in the neighborhood, agreed that the attacking owl probably was protecting fledglings. Others suggested that owls may mistake the hairy human head for a fat, slow-moving...