Word: denning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blow, who seems to be derived from O. Henry, is worshipped by a jazz-drummer with a soul above percussion. Naturally, like any stage shopgirl, she falls prey to a wily villain with a wife. When the wife and a cop turn on the girl in a gaudy den of pleasure, she jumps out of a, window as the best way to avoid an explanation. Unfortunately, a tree outside breaks her fall. She lives. The play doesn't. It is a violent melodrama, a case of theatrical hiccoughs...
...Boston outfit last night braved the New Haven Bears in their den, but were hampered by injuries in the first string line-up. The B. A. A. is is still holding up its end of the neck and neck race with the Boston Hockey Club for first place in the Eastern Division...
...Lord Haldane, Lord Chancellor, a Liberal in the Labor den, gave the lead to the Socialists by cutting down his large salary ($42,500). Patrick Hastings, Attorney General, was reported to be sticking to his $29,750 salary and to his fees which easily reach $125,000 a year. John Burns, Minister of Health, boldly asserted that he intended to stick to every penny of his $8,500 a year...
...play the role of Rebecca. When some disciple of pure English, anxious to struggle out of the habit of saying "atta boy," telephones for help, it will draw forth from this well the correct equivalent in Chaucerian, Spencerian or Tennysonian diction. No longer will the proprietor of the esoteric den use "Shoppe" for "Shop"; on more can stenographers delude anyone into thinking that Sanskrit is good English; no more will street-car conductors be able to say "Watch yer step" instead of 'Take care of the drop" without meeting the haughty stare and the raised eyebrow of regenerated America...
...amid the welter of first college appointments and new surroundings, a large proportion of Freshmen have already seen advisers, it is due to the work of the Committee, which has changed the old order of things; gone are the days when the lordly Senior Adviser emerged from his den to visit his meek advisees as the snow began...