Word: denning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grows positively gloomy when the scene opens in Miami with speedboats upon the waters and the scenery littered up with society people in stenographers' clothing. Then a flying boat crashes and things begin to improve. Soon the heroine (Bebe Daniels) on the trail of a thrill stumbles into a den of crooks. The audience has caught the idea by this time and for the rest of the picture thrills comfortably in spite of itself...
MIGHTY LAK' A ROSE.-Bull Morgan of Murderers' Den and Hard-Boiled Mollie Malone were no proper company for poor little blind Rose Duncan. However, she gets into their clutches and Jimmie Harrison, hero, goes to the rescue. There is a good bloody fight between Bull and Jimmie, which ends up in blind Rose being squashed all over the floor by a chair swung in the stalwart hands of Bull...
This is a fable of the Bird and the Ink-Pot. The Bird inhabits a curious building on Bow Street, and during, the winter months refuses to be tempted from the comfort of his tiled nest, even when summoned by Telegram. The Ink-Pot's den is a short distance from the Bird's cage but what a gap it is in fact. Strangely enough, the Bird was originally drawn by Ink from its neighbor, but that is never admitted--not even by the Ink-Pot, whereupon the cover was clapped on; after a small tempest and flapping of wings...
...French "violation of the treaty of Versailles", but have been quieted by advice from the government that resistance would be futile. Yet that same government is reported to have called for a monster parade of protest, in which all loyal sons of the Vaterland will march up Unter den Linden--brandishing umbrellas, no doubt, and shouting "Ich protestiere" with the full convictions of prejudice...
Assistant Den Leighton is now a secon-year student at the Business School. During the war he served first inb the Navy and then with the Marines, and saw overseas services as a second lieutenant...