Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours that followed, the world press collected a mare's-nest of wild reports from Apia. The Clipper was safe in Apia harbor. She was down safe on the sea near Tutuila. Only the high mountains were keeping her signals from coming through. More alarmingly, a native was said to have reported he had seen fire in the sky and smoke on the water off Samoa. And then the Avocet, following streaks of oil floating on the long ocean swells, came upon what was left of the $320,000 Samoan Clipper 14 miles northwest of Pago Pago-a drawer...
Since 1914 there has been not a single German consulate in eastern France. Last week Premier Camille Chautemps softened up, permitted Chancellor Adolf Hitler to establish one at Epinal, 50 miles southwest of Strasbourg near Alsace-Lorraine. Indignant Epinal residents complained: "It will be nothing but a nest of spies...
...composition of contrasts : trains crawling in industrial valleys and a German cruiser's crew doing exuberant calisthenics in the sea breeze off Charleston. To show how exuberant they were he made one or two of them appear to be taking hurdles as high as the crow's nest. His prize-winning picture was therefore thoroughly panned by every unimaginative critic in the U. S., and Blume became known as a surrealist about as soon as he became known...
...eminent horticulturist; having afterward heard, for the first time in his life, great music, in the form of Beethoven's Eroica symphony, he returns very tired, belatedly, to the almost deserted castle of Wotton Vanborough. There still further surprises await him. A search for a suspected rat-nest leads him into a series of secret passageways. He emerges from these to confront an antique statue, glitteringly gilded; the statue falls, bursts open, revealing a cache of medieval manuscripts. At last, from an atmosphere grown dreamlike in its portentous illogicality, he walks out into the moonlit garden, sees a dark...
...capital of Francisco Franco, last week was held a prize example of Court Martial Type No. 2. Star defendant was tall, ash-blond Harold E. Dahl, 28, of Champaign, Ill., a mercenary who enlisted with the Leftists for a promised $1,500 a week, was shot down into a nest of Moorish troops while on a bombing raid three months ago. Because Flyer Dahl was the first U. S. aviator known to have been caught alive, because his blonde wife, Edith, crooner on the French Riviera, had sent a photograph of herself to El Caudillo so toothsome that staff officers...