Word: dena
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Plump Mrs. Dena Shelby Diehl, American Mother of 1941, had a chat with plump Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, First U.S. Mother, came out against spanking...
...Kentucky feuds, with characters who are farmers, truck drivers, wise widows and runaway girls. The telephone and radio have reached Miss Roberts' countryside but the people have not changed much: they are superstitious, religious, poetic, great musicians, ballad makers, storytellers. They are also high-spirited: 23-year-old Dena Janes runs away with a truck driver, leaves him when he threatens to kill her, lives in dread of a shot from ambush while she lives down her disgrace in her home town. Weakened by a few cloudy, symbolical passages, Black Is My Truelove's Hair is nevertheless...
...hidden meaning, and words in current use today retain the meaning which the group of letters gave." And accepting the tradition which exists in Ireland, in Greece and in Egypt of an ancient alphabet of sixteen letters the author seeks to prove that the well-known nursery catch, "Ena dena, dina, do, catch a nigger by the toe, etc.," is this lost alphabet, preserved by generations of children, who repeated it almost subconsciously, perfectly oblivious to the "depth of knowledge buried in the apparently meaningless words...
...Davenport '21, and M. E. Gibson 21, defeated L, Clarkson 1G. B. and G. B. Seager 1G. B., M. P. Lichauco '23 and J. G. Russell '22 defeated A. W. Dena '25 and R. D. Gross...