Word: denizens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoons its value for the casual reader would be greatly increased. As its chief function is to make available a fine library of poetry to all who wish to come and browse, it should not deliberately close its doors at a time when it would be most used. The denizen of the house plan must traverse many dreary leagues before reaching the security of Widener's shadow. It is only during the morning, when he is of necessity drawn to the Yard because of classes, that he would avail himself of the opportunities offered by the Poetry Room...
...professional stage hands who accompany the Princeton Triangle Club show around its Christmas vacation circuit travel next to the locomotive in the "animal car." They shoot crap with the boys and are very funny. Several years ago, when the Triangle was playing Manhattan's august Metropolitan Opera House, one denizen of the animal car quarreled with one of the Metropolitan's resident stage crew...
...youth" as your correspondent suggests though the "juvenility of my mind" is, of course, arguable. I will venture to point out to him that I was a member of Harvard University at a time when, he in all reasonable possibility, was a denizen of Sank Center...
Like Ulysses, Alexander platz is a many-charactered merry-go-round with one unheroic central figure bobbing through the realistic din. Not less topical than Ulysses, Alexander platz is more sordid, more sentimental. Herr Doblin's Dublin is Berlin: his hero one Franz Biberkopf, denizen of the city's lesser deeps. Just released from Tegel Prison after serving four years for killing his harlot-mistress, Biberkopf in tends to go straight, shake off the crooked company he kept before. He sells news papers, manages respectability for a while. Then he runs into his evil genius, one Reinhold...
Fleet and shy is the okapi, member of the giraffe family and denizen only of Ituri Forest in the Belgian Congo. Okapi have been captured, but never photographed in their native environment, which is one of the most dense jungles known to man. Distinctive feature of the okapi is its striped hindquarters.* Therefore when Explorer Cornelius P. Bezuidenhout brought back from the Ituri section closeup pictures of the jungle okapi, Illustrated London News not only featured his photographs and ran a long story by him, but used a closeup rear-view of a female okapi as its full-page frontispiece...