Word: roost
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They liked the theater's proportions. But what the Paris' owners, the French Pathé movie syndicate*, liked about the theater was its dollars, which should fatten Pathé's lean coffers. For Pathé, whose crowing cock once ruled the world's movie roost, was now a scraggly bird...
...professor works in a cluttered laboratory with a view of a garbage dump and its swarming rat and mouse population. The room is aflutter with canaries, which roost on the rungs of his chair and scatter when he moves. At night, while the professor works, the mice steal out of holes. Their feet patter like rain on the zinc-covered tables, and when one of them chews a seed stolen from the canaries, it makes, says the professor, "a very delicate noise." Cockroaches fade like ghosts in & out of cracks. The birds crane their necks and peer...
...Church," he said, "was reduced to an institution whose function it was to comfort the aged and to wipe the eyes of those who couldn't take it in the struggle of life. Now all our compromises, our sins, our apostasy are coming back to roost in one awful tide of judgment. And we are afraid of the Communists, afraid of the atomic bomb, afraid of a depression, afraid of Catholics, afraid of anything and everything fearful, afraid of God." Dr. Rutenber's remedy: to "return to God and the raw Christianity of our origins...
...patch up and are promptly advised to tear down. They get a lot of belated advice from their lawyer friend (Melvyn Douglas), and they go into a huddle with an architect (Reginald Denny) who is willing to design practically anything-at a price. Before their homing instinct comes to roost at last they have been put through the wringer by practically every type of swindler involved in, or parasitic upon, the building trades. Blandings saves his neglected job by the skin of his teeth; and for a time even his marriage seems to be headed for the rocks...
...third largest of the Houses, Winthrop will have between 35 and 40 singles when all the rooms are "deconverted." This, as well as the sturdy, sound absorbing walls, should attract lovers of quiet and solitude to the Puritan roost. A possible disadvantage is that there are few showers, most of the rooms having only bathtubs...