Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indulge my tastes for good literature," the necessity to get circulation "by pushing into the back of my mind all that I had learned about the value of constructive news." But before Hearst fired him for writing a book in praise of Russia, he had salted away a tabloidian nest...
...Family, a sequel to Author Partridge's best-selling Country Lawyer, is a total recall of family jokes, family stories and the intramural mores of Father, Mother, Grandma and eight little Partridges from the time the youngest was born until the last has left the upstate New York nest. As bucolic Americana it is superb. As a picture of boys' life, it is what Booth Tarkington's Penrod is supposed to be and for many people...
...three months since 32-year-old Deputy Raúl Damonte Taborda began a Dies-inspired investigation of anti-Argentine activities he has stealthily and steadily crept closer to Argentina's cuckoo nest: the German Embassy. Last week Deputy Damonte thought he had his hands on the biggest cuckoo in the nest...
AWAKE DEBORAH-Eden Phillpotts-Macmillan ($2.50). Long golden hair woven into a Dartmoor heath lark's nest is the first clue to murder that stirs an English botanist out of his dignified ease and sadly perplexes Scotland Yard. Lengthy, but impressive story in the grand English tradition...
...into your nest, do your little best, get it off your chest, I can do the rest...