Word: denned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pound Negro fought a 185-pound Irishman. Harry Wills of New Or leans, repeated challenger. of Champion Dempsey, won a decision but failed to knock out (or even knock down) awk ward but plucky Bartley Madden. Indeed, as the fight progressed, Mad den began to wax more and more potent while the giant Senegambian "appeared to be tiring from his own efforts." Counting those who graced telephone and telegraph poles that over looked the arena, 20,000 persons saw the encounter. Madden absorbed ter rific punishment at close quarters - he was soundly whacked on eye, jaw, crown, ribs and solar...
...happened to me once you are sent to New Jersey to hunt a man-eating shark just go to the Amsterdam Roof Gar- den and after about four hours telephone that the shark was last seen fluking his tall well outside the three-mile limit. If you are sent to burglarize some woman's flat for pictures say that the fire escape was blocked by parked babies. You'll have to match cynicism with cynicism...
...hymns. When you sang 'Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone, Dare to have a purpose firm, Dare to make it known,' you were sufficiently interested at least to walk through the mud and rain, if not sufficiently brave to go into the den with the lions...
...momentum rather than halt it, so he will send his strongest-line-up into the fray. The general feeling now is that if the University five can maintain the pace set Wednesday in routing the Green it will be able to silence the Bulldog's growl in his very den. Tonight's task is to down the St. Francis team in stride without losing sight of the imminent objective contest with the Blue...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC?Walter Hamp-den's virtuosity astonishing even his most fervent admirers in Rostand's modern classic...