Word: roost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year drew toward its close, a wacky picture book, White Collar Zoo, stood at the head of the non-fiction bestsellers, and a vastly overrated picaresque novel with a panoramic ancient setting, The Egyptian, ruled the current fiction roost. One was a good-natured freak, the other an escape hatch, and neither of them was a suggestive commentary on the year's literary inventory...
Felix Frankfurter, Vienna-born, oldest in years (66), who as a professor at the Harvard Law School in the '30s hatched out a brood of young New Deal pundits, and as a justice is a bouncing, argumentative, brilliant little man planted firmly on the roost of his vast knowledge...
International UNESCO day, New England branch, came to roost in Sanders Theater last night as the United Nations Council played host for the finale of the local celebration...
Last week, spectators jammed the small gallery at Haverford's (Pa.) Merion Cricket Club to watch 21 topflighters fight it out for the national singles championship. It was like looking down from the observer's roost of an operating room: the walls cold and white, the temperature a chilly 45°. The way the experts played it, squash racquets was a test of tactics and attrition. With slim-throated, roundheaded racquets, they slammed a little black ball around the wooden-walled court. The trick was to stand in midcourt (from which most defensive shots could be readily reached...
...Manhattan, the Royal Roost, hoping to heighten bebop's moral and intellectual tone, opened a milk bar for teen-agers in the yellow leather corral. A learned study of bebop by Jazz Columnist Leonard Feather was under way, and a letter had been dispatched to Bernard Shaw to get his opinion on the whole thing...