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Word: denning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still, and releases this month The Three Just Men-the survivors of his eccentric millionaire quartet who administered justice when the law failed. A labyrinthine maze of blood and thunder, his latest concoction works itself up to a grand finale with airplanes training guns on a London riverfront den of vice, and deadly snakes slithering across the floor toward a lovely victim. That she was heiress to a gold-mine in South Africa she did not know; but her half-demented captor knew; and the Three Just Men knew-almost too late. The man who was bringing her the deeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Master of Mass | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...that the U.S. Government closed the border as an aftermath of the Peteet "Shame Deaths" some three years back. One Thomas Peteet. U.S. citizen, and his wife and two daughters were on holiday. Drugged wine was served the girls in a bar; they were kidnaped, haled to a vice den and repeatedly assaulted. Thomas Peteet, miserably ashamed, turned on the gas in a San Diego hotel and killed his whole family. Four Mexicans were tried for the crime, and acquitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Al Hippodromo | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Near Siler City, N. C., last fortnight, a woman reporter interviewed "Uncle" Ance Watson, 112, onetime slave, and his son, 75. Said Watson Sr.: "If my Missus didn't go to Heaven, den Heaven is sho scarce of white folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ring | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...college girls givva more da mon' den da boys? Well, mebby, sometime. Nobody givva much in da cold weather. I maka most my mon' in spring, when it's warm an' da folks hang outta da window". Thus did Joe the hurdy-gurdy man, whose rickety cart, boney horse and barking dog are familiar figures in Cambridge, sum up his business prospects, without realizing that he was undergoing an interview with a CRIMSON reporter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joe the Organ-Grinder Admits Superior Eleemosynary Spirit in Girls--His Horse's Left Hind Foot Once a Target | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

...Rose Bowl, at Arroyo Seco just outside of Pasadena.* This year, after the Army and N. Y. U. had been smashed by Stanford and Oregon Aggies, Georgia Tech was asked to come out West. It seemed at first that a lion was asking a rabbit to come inside his den; when a picked Eastern team last fortnight beat a picked Western team, people thought that perhaps the analogy was that of a bear entertaining a wasp and the odds on the game approached even money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Riegels' Run | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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