Word: nook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany it was 2 a.m. when the telephone tinkled by Adolf Hitler's bed at his mountain nook at Berchtesgaden. After he heard that Germany's greatest transport pride was no more, he paced his room nightlong, too upset to say anything...
...spent an hour or so in Keats' room (which is next to Severn's). On the one side it overlooks the majestic staircase of the "Trinita Dei Monti" and on the other the Piazza and the Fountain. Immediately below is a charming outdoor flower nook owned by a jolly old Italian and you can call from Keat's window and he will bring you up a rose; and if he likes you he may give you one for "the Signore" free. Without superstition I think nowhere in Rome have I seen flowers so fresh and so seemingly content...
Thomas H. Bilodeau '37 does a ballet specialty, "Ballet des Flours" in a winged butterfly costume. Donald C. Sleeper '38 in the character of Suzy Murphy, girl about town, does a Bowery number. John Benbow, Jr. '37, as Chuckle, and Harry E. Gibby, Jr. '38, as Aussie, sing "Breakfast Nook" in their portrayal of a young married couple...
...appointment of Arthur Darby Nook, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion to the Society of Fellows increases the number from seven to eight. The other six members are President Conant, President Lowell, Dean George David Birkhoff '04, of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Perkins Professor of Mathematics; John Livingston Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature; Lawrence J. Henderson '98, professor of Biological Chemistry, who is the Chairman; and Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History...
...from the point of view of sound business administration periodic changes--say once or twice a year--in the duties of those who patrol the college has everything in its favor. Unless all the night porters are familiar with every nook and cranny of the University, their usefulness in protecting the property and population is seriously impaired. With their simple routine functions to perform, the force's efficiency and morale is stiffened and braced by a change of outlook and terrain. Furthermore, the position of night patrolman at any one house should not become a vested interest, for watchmen...