Word: denly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LIONS' DEN-Janet Fairbank- Bobbs-Merritt ($2.50).† When young Daniel Carson was elected Congressman from his Wisconsin district, he went to Washington full of ambition and high ideals. Poor, unmarried, a farmer, he had lived a progressive but black-&-white life, and as a Congressman expected to do the same on a grander scale. In Washington he was seen with the wrong people, got off to a bad start. His ambition found little outlet on the Committee on the Disposition of Useless Executive Papers. Then he met Senator Miller's wife, beautiful, socially powerful, a teaser. Congressman...
...born and reared on a farm near Winnipeg, Canada. Of her early cultural advantages, she says that her mother "dedicated her to God as Hannah did Samuel; instead of Cinderella and Mother Goose, I went to sleep with Jonah and the Whale and Daniel in the Lion's Den...
...York American, ever mindful of the classics, solved its feature problem by simply beginning to reprint that 50-year-old saga, originally printed in 64 nickel novels, Deadwood Dick, Prince of the Road by Edward L. Wheeler. Readers past middle-age, to whom the yellow paperbacked books were forbid den in childhood, fondly renewed acquaint ance with their clandestine friends Calamity Jane, Fearless Frank, Catamount Diamond, Sitting Bull. Younger fry read wonderingly of the swaggering, snarling, laughing outlaw of South Dakota's Black Hills, tried to picture his tight-fitting habit of black buckskin, his black "thorough bred steed...
Gistermiddag zou te Middelburg een 49-jarige slagersknecht in de centrale slachtplaats een koe slachten. Op het oogenblik, dat hij het schot wilde afvuren, stootte de koe hem met den kop het pistool uit de handen. Door den val ging het schot af en trof den man in den bulk. Deze was dadelijk dood...
Vice in Detroit grew greater, became the subject of wholesale graft accusations by Judge Edward J. Jeffries, presiding jurist of the Recorder's Court. The Mayor and Commissioner Gillespie went to the Kentucky Derby. While they were gone, Commissioner Emmons had many a gambling den raided. Wroth, the Mayor returned, heard a deputation of citizens demand the dismissal of Gillespie, the support of Emmons' raids. His answer was the dismissal of Commissioner Emmons...