Word: nested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader, exclaimed: "It is a manly thing, when one gives offense, whether intentionally or unintentionally, to make a frank and manly apology . . . If the Senator desires to apologize and to withdraw what appears to have been a deliberate affront and befouling of his own nest, a discrediting of his constituency, he will have to withdraw the vital parts of his address, in which he charged himself and his colleagues with deliberately committing crimes against the Government and violating moral as well as political principles...
...industry, as in government, the old motto "In union there is strength" is popular and sometimes true. American Sugar Refining became interested in acquiring the National Sugar Refining Co. of New Jersey. Unfortunately, politicians had previously made a mare's nest out of the alleged "Sugar Trust," and by a decree in United States vs. American Sugar Refining Co., the matter of future merges of this company had taken on a political and legal aspect. Prior to 1911 American Sugar Refining had owned National Sugar Refining, but was compelled by the courts to dispose of its holdings...
...produced The Harem-a. dull and dangerous farce about seduction. Finally, he has produced Ladies of the Evening, a play frankly, almost viciously, pornographic. Cognoscenti assert that Mr. Belasco has fared unfavorably in finance of late. He has turned to the last refuge, the bed, to feather his declining nest...
...thing that saved the day for the Blue was Pond's forty-eight yard run for a touchdown in the opening period. With Yale in possession of the ball at midfield, Pond drove at the Army's right tackle but ran into a nest of waiting Cadets. Shaking these off, he broke to his left, stiff-armed two more tacklers and raced the remaining distance to the goal line...
...sort. The Saturday Review is as authoritative as all followers of Editor Canby knew it would be. Its editorials are clear, its reviewers carefully chosen. Its essays, if somewhat academic, have a certain charm. Mr. Morley's "The Bowling Green"and Mr. William Benet's "The Phoenix Nest" recommend it heartily to the large personal followings of these gentlemen. It is not in any sense a supplement to a paper. It is a review in the traditions of the English reviews, with somewhat of the complexion of The Times Literary Supplement; or rather, perhaps, with more...