Word: nook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...misfortunes of a President of the U. S. whom theatre-goers found it easy to think of as Warren Gamaliel Harding. The audience sees President "Easy" Markham (Actor Berton Churchill) as a stately tool of politicians who run the nation from a poker table stuck away in a private nook known as "the crow's nest." Because of his unwholesome faith in these cronies, he allows the White House to degenerate into what one of the characters described as an automat ("Because when you want to take something out, you just put in a coin"). When the graft...
...personal knowledge of every bud on the glass flowers in Cambridge and an ability to cross Washington street without fear or trembling. The confident Freshman whose savoir-faire considerably outweighs his rational aculties may believe that a journey down the long white trek to Andrews Square or a nook in the attic of the Boston Opera House should entitle him to the keys of the city and a bed in the State House. The established order of things is, however, much different. The day is past when one could romp gaily through every Middlesex village and town and then retire...
Believing in proportion in all things, he has discovered under the protecting wing of Symphony Hall, a tiny store whose dimensions are decidedly unfriendly to fat men, whom nobody loves, but which are made just right for Otto. Into this nook Otto is planning to move bag and baggage, books and bookshelves...
...oaken crib 52 feet long and weighing ten tons, it arrived in Manhattan on the French liner Paris. It is to be exhibited by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in Madison Square Garden, scene of many a prize fight, hockey game, circus, but never before an art-lovers' nook. Later the epic in paint will go on a trip around the world and back to Paris...
...Rockefeller Foundation calls Detroit "the vilest city in the country," or when a newspaper publisher is murdered in Canton, Ohio (TIME, July 26). However, there is one town which has recently raised the visceral tension of the righteous about once a month. That town is Cicero, Ill., a Utopian nook for the twins. Here on the western fringe of Chicago is a polyglot population of 62,000-Irishmen, Italians, Sicilians, Slavs and many another tribe. The Western Electric Co. employs thousands of them; other industries are near and plentiful. But it is to the gangs of the Bad Lands that...