Word: nests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America of today faces a crisis. Other nations are arming, outfitting troops, building battleships and cancelling debts. Europe bristles with bayonets. Asia rules with cruisers, pineapples, and typewriters, every coolie packs a rod. Africa, whilom house of the laughter loving lion, is now a hornet's nest of poison darts, dum dum bullets, King Kong and Frank Buck. War is imminent. (Advertisement courtesy of the National Students League.) In a chaos of Hate and Strife we find ourselves, swept along by irresistible currents, pursued by a thousand enemies, unable to save ourselves by uttering a long quavering squeal...
Hair combings to be burned, to prevent a bird from finding them and building them into a nest. Otherwise the careless comber will suffer headaches until the fledglings leave the hair-woven nest...
Beginning when Henry Linden brings his bride Manella home from India to live amongst his old British family tree, awaiting the building of his own little nest, we travel space through her affair with his brother, and the resulting complications to where his brother's original country-gal wife, loving her husband and still liking his seductress, walks into the burning barn and thus out of the picture. The following nervous breakdowns, maddened raving, etc., turn what started out a very clever snappy job into a rather morbid dissection of human passion and pain...
...welcome the chance," said he, "to prove once again that Mr. Churchill has found a mare's nest. Practically every one of the statements he has just made are without foundation. . . . Because of the unfortunate effect it would have upon negotiations in progress in India between a Lancashire cotton mill delegation and Indian cotton interests regarding the problem of Japanese competition, the Lancashire delegation cabled the Manchester committee from India to change its evidence...
Many a plain U.S. citizen will linger over the snapshots of the last Republican and Democratic Conventions, will hoot with sudden delight at an action photograph of the Senate ("Ever seen a section of a termite nest under glass?"), will scratch his head over this group picture of the House of Representatives: ". . . Everywhere the closeset eyes full of lawyer's chicanery, the pursed, selfrighteous mouth drawn down at the corners, the flabby self satisfied jowl...