Word: denning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half an hour he cantered, galloped, walked. Later, in his motor again, he dashed through the streets of Rome, as Wilhelm der Zweite once sped down Unter den Linden-giving way only to the Municipal Fire Department...
Perhaps inspired by the recent literary conference staged by the Advocate, the "Princeton Tiger" has announced that he will meet in his den 25 comic college magazines of the East. The meeting is to be purely for business and the "Tiger" has announced that he will provide no recreational festivities for his guests...
...Berlin Express de luxe thundered out over its carefully ballasted roadbed at 100 kilometers an hour. A Berliner, who endeavored to appear nonchalant, picked up the telephone instrument which dangled from a hook in his Schlafwagen (sleeping car) compartment, and bellowed the phone number of his apartment on Unter den Linden through the roar of the train. His wife answered, intelligibly, if necessarily at the top of her lungs; and the details of next morning's breakfast were gutturally decided upon. The Berliner hung up, paid the Eisenbahn Gesellschaft (railroad company) 5 gold marks ($1.20), and considered himself lucky...
Loew's Orpheum "Den Q" not Douglas Fairbanks best, but still worth anybody's time...
...disgraceful seriousness and a criminal disregard of the dramatic possibilities. With all the assets of romantic wrongdoing at his disposal for publicity, Mr. Brisbape's benevolent press agenting of the yellow peril, for weapon, the long, slim dagger of the Orient, for place of execution, a mysterious opium den, the tong-man most prosaically shoots his enemy in a hot laundry or at best chops off his head with a meat cleaver in a hall bedroom. Such lack of consideration for reporters, such neglect of the movie career lying open to the artistic murderer brings one to the conclusion that...