Word: nests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months after the Philadelphia wrestling match episode, Franklin was a guest at Ethel's debut at Owls Nest, the Du Ponts' Greenville, Del. home. He subsequently visited her there and at a summer place at North Harbor, Me. When they appeared together at other debuts in Boston and Philadelphia the same year, society columnists began to predict a match. "Absolutely untrue," snapped Father du Pont. Nevertheless, Franklin bought a roadster in Wilmington and gave his address as Owls Nest Road...
Next morning their platoon is sent over the top. Advancing through murk and mire, suffering heavy losses, they valiantly capture an Allied machine-gun nest only to be halted by news of the Armistice. Mutters one: "After four years-and it just fizzled...
...young Omaha lawyer, George M. Tunison, 30, arrived on the Shoshone reservation to determine heirships of Indian lands in litigation. He opened a hornets' nest when he innocently asked tribal elders how Arapahoes happened to be sharing the reservation. Lawyer Tunison took the Shoshones' case. From 1912 to 1927 he labored to persuade Congress to permit the Shoshones to sue the Government. From 1927 to 1933 he organized the case, presented it to the United States Court of Claims, which granted the Shoshones $2,500,000 in 1935. The Indians appealed to the Supreme Court, which upheld their...
William Rose Benet suffers less successfully in "The Phoenix Nest"(which should, of course, have become "The Mare's Nest"). The first part of this article on Poetry is better than the second which goes Esquirish in its strain for 'satire'. George Jean Nathan comes out second best too, despite the fact that his parodist has chosen a subject close to the Nathan heart. Neither the virility. nor yet the scurrility of Nathan's style is well imitated...
...book in his lap and his staring out the window. What is he staring at? The top of the pillars? Say, they've got nails stuck in all over them like a pincushion! What a dirty trick to play on the pigeons! Why shouldn't they build a nest over the steps if they want .... Oh, of course...