Word: denning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vice reformed by the site of beautiful columns, and is Harvard such a den of iniquity that it requires a new chapel to pull it out of the mire? Students may at times seem obstreperous and unruly but beyond that "Heniso't qui mal y pense...
...these lily-livered saints who, from their monasteries, look out on the Harvard yard to find den of vice and sin sheltered beneath the ancient elms? They throw up their arms in despair and say we will build a chapel large enough to fill the yard, one which will leave them no room for their vice, one which they will be forced to attend one which will bring them under the guiding hand...
...Frankau relates how he prognosticated the General Strike "way back in 1923" but was, like Cassandra, ignored. He goes on to reveal that upon a proscription list found in a Communistic den his name stood second only to that of Winston Churchill. Third in line for the gibbet was Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary of Mr, Baldwin's cabinet...
...Romantic Young Lady. The tiny Neighborhood Playhouse hid den in the slums of Grand Street has again put forth one of the true delights of the theatrical season. They have taken a Spanish comedy, translated by Helen and Harley Granville-Barker, produced in London as long ago as 1920, and brought it to America in as feathery and fascinating a manner as the harshest skeptic could desire...
Some three years ago the jeweled crown of H. M. Augusta Victoria, late Kaiserin of Germany, vanished mysteriously from the Imperial palace, Unter den Linden. Since this pompous trinket of gold and jewels is valued at $875,000, many a detective has been vainly seeking it. Last week a clue was found...