Word: denned
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...although his novels were critical successes; too restless to sleep, although he smoked opium. When Bianca's young cousin Peter Cable, fresh from Oxford, gets tangled up with the Galère, they tear him apart in no time. Both Louis and Peter are arrested in an opium den, involved in a scandal that cannot be laughed off. Peter dies in a sanitarium while Bianca, who has tried to save him, and Louis, who let him go down, are at his bedside. They separate, Bianca to go through a period of mild dissipation with the Galère, Louis...
...innovation will be inserted in the way of refreshments by the introduction of Good Humers. The use of Memorial Hall in preference to the Union is expected to keep this evening's affair from resembling the San Francisco opium den of former years...
...physical exertion of carving. At 17, he decided he was old enough to enlist in the British Army but that year the War ended. He left home, got along for ten years on a continuous succession of scholarships. As a student in Rome he lived in a thieves' den. In Naples he was nearly murdered. In 1927 he felt that his career was launched at last when a handful of important people came to his first show...
...Geist der sich den Koeper baut...
...matter of fact in that quiet and secluded den of science, far from the madding maelstrom of university life, we passed the most hair-raising quarter hour we've yet known. For innocently accepting an invitation to witness a short operation on a cat, we had no sooner crossed the threshold of the formaldehyde-filled room when the coils of drama closed round us like an octopus and didn't let go till we left in a state of exhaustion, bloody and quite bowed...