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...effect; a mirror placed against the pane, so that he got a good full view of himself, excited him neither more nor less. Unlike the Kansas City robin (TIME, March 27) he had no mate in evidence. On the roof just over the window was a half-finished nest with a pile of unused material beside it. We had a theory that in the spring when the house was building, the mate had been caught and died inside, and that the cock robin was obsessed with the thought of getting inside to look for her, but when we opened...
...London one Emelia Tersini, waitress, suing monstrous Boxer Primo Carnera for breach of promise, was awarded ?4,200 ($14,300) on the strength of letters from Carnera saying, "Dear Treasure of Mine. . . . Our little nest of love. . . . You can have trust in your Primo because he loves you with all his heart and soul...
...price agreements. It also armed him with a processing tax which may cost John Consumer & family a billion dollars a year. Opponents harped on the fact that it would require thousands and thousands of Federal agents to administer the new law and that the Democrats were feathering their political nest by putting all such extra employes outside the civil service. The bill's friends retorted that this was done to permit the President to dismiss the lot without notice and end operations overnight if his farm experiment proved a failure. Many a member flayed the measure as the worst...
Wild waltzing mice are rare. They seldom find another of their kind to mate with. They seem to be less hardy than normal mice. Waltzing mothers often tangle their babies so tightly in the nest material or in their own long tails that the mouselets suffocate or starve. Captivity and inbreeding are necessary to perpetuate the trait in whole families...
Secretary of Labor Doak, with his estate "Notre Nid" (our nest) in Virginia, will stay on in Washington as lobbyist for the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen...