Word: nooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...direction and staging are at a safe distance from the amateurish. The Mannock library, thrice appearing looks as it should, like the room of a political and unliterary owner. The dream scene in Act II is presented in a properly confused manner, and the nook mid sunny spots of greenery, where the Rt. Hon. Selby Mannock grows romantic, beyond doubt is the sort of place where that sort of man would do precisely that...
...with such grace with a foot on either side of the continent. The Stan- ford Employment Office and Dining Hall System are chiefed and staffed by women, the Registrar's Office and Library have two men each directing a staff composed almost entirely of women, and in every nook and cranny of Stanford, women secretaries write, type, talk, phone...
...make a horrible example out of one lobby and one lobbyist, the Senate investigating committee kept James A. Arnold on the witness stand for five days last week while its members probed and pricked every nook and corner of his legislative career. Middleaged, heavy-jowled, canny. Lobbyist Arnold is manager of the Southern Tariff Association (organized to develop protective sentiment in the South) and of the American Taxpayers League (pledged to repeal the federal inheritance...
...strange, bovine character. Her archaic, flat-footed figure, her tremendous and sagging muscles, her heavy Buddhistic countenance roused a deafening discussion. She was called grotesque, horrible. The protests culminated in a student uprising in which the bird-girl was painted green. Londoners today point out with chagrin her quiet nook, declare she "scares the birds away...
Chicago's police adopted the handiest explanation: the Moran gang had avenged the St. Valentine's Day massacre. The Spooner's Nook find brought the number of Chicago underworldlings who have met violent death this year to 20, an all-time high for the first five months of any year...