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Word: den (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lion's Den" Holdcroft P. 0., Charles City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tyler v. Lincoln | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...hands upon the culprit. Having accomplished the first part of his duty, he visits a snow-bound sporting house, where northern whores are cavorting with their customers. Unmoved by these ladies, Michael Devlin goes on trying to get his man. At last he breaks into a dope den and gets a ratty, villainous Chinaman, achieving at the same time the love of an Irish colleen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 9, 1928 | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...Streets of Shanghai. Not in years has a truckload of U. S. Marines dashed so madly over rough Chinese roads to save the honor of a pretty American missionary, lured to a mandarin's den. Heavy with leers, threats, murders and stabbings, the dolorous drama follows Pauline Starke as the girl who loves Marine Kenneth Harlan, who is in turn loved by wicked Margaret Livingston. Evil sticks up like potatoes in Irish stew. It is all excessively Chinese, silly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 12, 1928 | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Because Their Majesties are the first reigning sovereigns to visit Berlin officially since the War, their reception last week included the lavish decking of Unter den Linden with much tall, upstanding greenery and many an Afghan & German flag. The famed Prince Albrecht Palace had been entirely renovated for their reception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Amir's Progress | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...Reno, Nev., eleven Chinamen were arrested in a raid on an opium den. A shepherd dog, owned by one of the Chinamen, followed his master to jail, spent the night pacing between his master's cell and the confiscated opium pipes in the chief of police's office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Putting on the Dog | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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