Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franchot Tone. Her surprise and delight may be imagined when she discovers that her brother (Pat O'Brien) is the boozy butler of Composer Tone's Park Avenue penthouse. But it is Butler O'Brien's special business to keep thrushes out of this quiet nest, and for several reels Miss Durbin, though she crowbars her way into a maid's job there, has to content herself with charming some comic local lackeys and an eager Broadway producer (Walter Catlett). At last, at a Butlers' Ball, she utters some high notes which pierce...
...After a few seconds the gun ceased firing, loud yelling could be heard and one of the crew came running from the hut with Chips tearing at his neck. . . . Chips's courageous act, singlehandedly [sic] eliminating a dangerous machine-gun nest . . . reflects the highest credit on himself and the military service...
...endowed for 18 years went to Doris Lee's gently caricatural Thanksgiving in 1935. She thereupon dedicated a society for "Sanity in Art" to the proposition that "The 'Cuckoo of Publicity' has laid the egg of a new 'dodo bird' in the hard nest of art," thereafter purred contentedly at her own safe & sane exhibits. She was a cofounder of the American College of Surgeons...
Second only to Harvard Square's Boston Elevated shack, the hideous ibis-nest at Mt. Auburn and Bow is entering its thirty-fifth year as a notorious local traffic hazard. An attempt to eject the occupants and remove the monstrosity from the middle of a public thoroughfare was foiled by camouflaging it as an automobile accident, and the Building Commission has been stalled off by leaning the shaky south wall so that it is supported by the others. It is thus quite possible that the Lampoon Building will stand for at least another year...
...yolks and orange juice, later polishes off a raw carrot and a slice of banana mixed with mockingbird seed. Good performances mean good meals of grapes. But this diet has to be regulated, because Raffles sometimes gets grape-happy and will not perform at all. Raffles sleeps in a nest of hot-water bottles. Being a tropical bird, it could not live otherwise...