Word: nook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their trains. Dining cars on the best trains will be air-conditioned. Into other cars, before leaving on hot days, will be pumped "a flood of fresh, precooled air" which will be "forced through all the aisles, around the seats, below the berths, into the compartments-penetrating to every nook and cranny of the car . . . affording full ventilation en route...
...stimulation of business; 3) relief for needy veterans. Said he of the Hoover statement: "The millions released by the Reconstruction Finance Corp. went to the big boys by way of New York. The millions involved in the full payment bill will go to the little fellows in every nook and corner of the nation. ... It will mean increased revenue in the form of taxes to the Government. Mr. Hoover is misguided. . . . If he counts noses he'll find 90% to 95%, of the Legionaires are in favor of this legislation." Another red-hot champion of the Bonus is small...
After a recital Menuhin still asks for a strawberry ice-cream soda, but in Manhattan three years ago he wanted to do something different so his father took him to see his birthplace on University Avenue at 181st Street. He saw the nook under the stairs where his baby-carriage used to stand, the rigging on the firescape where his diapers hung, the grocery next door where a loaf of bread was snatched from his mother's hands because she could not pay immediately...
...House" in London. By way of something new, music from the ballroom orchestra was picked up by a microphone, reproduced on a loud speaker in a room where refreshments were served. Present at the party were a couple newly engaged. They slipped away at refreshment time, found a snuggly nook behind the potted palms in the ballroom where the orchestra had been playing. Suddenly in the refreshment room where a hundred guests were dining, the loud speaker began to broadcast what was being said in the snugglery behind the potted palms. Aghast, "Snorks" pricked up her ears, realized that...
Capitol rumor: The storage room, tucked off in a nook by itself, was used as a drinking place and general rendezvous by Capitol employes...