Word: nook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there ever was a bogey snooping about Weld and Newell Boat Houses it will now have to take up quarters elsewhere. Every closet and recess in these buildings has been so aired and thrown open to the light that there is no longer any nook or cranny where it can hide. At the open meeting on yesterday Coach Stevens made it clear to candidates that crew at Harvard is crew for Harvard; that a single standard prevails in judging candidates; and that this standard is merit. No spoils system, no patronage, no closed shop. Every man who wants...
...mother caused him to be called William Dean Howells. The boy played a little, went to school a bit, then learned to sit long hours on a high stool in a printer's shop setting type. When he could, he went home and sat alone "in a windowed nook under the stairs," tirelessly schooling himself in literature, languages, composition. He loved his family with a deep reserve; he guarded his thoughts; he pursued youth's ideal of beauty...
While young Hugo Stinnes tours this country in plutocratic style searching in every nook and cranny for good investments for his opulent father, there is all the more pathos in the current trip of Oberammergau's peasants to America. These simple folk have always been so absolutely apart from the outside world and its cares that even the most cosmopolitan person cannot but feel that the Passion Play and its actors belong only to Oberammergau, and that if the world wants to see Anton Lang and his fellow-actors it must go to the little German village...