Word: denning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...base line most of the time Vines showed better than in Manhattan, ran the match to four sets. 6-4, 8-10, 9-7, 6-3. Next night in Washington Vines found himself, crowded the net continually, trounced Tilden 6-0, 5-7, 6-2, 6-2. Til den, erratic and off poise, plainly showed annoyance at linesmen and noisy gallery. Tilden's professional troupe, which includes also Vincent Richards and Bruce Barnes, will tour some 60,000 mi. this year through the U. S., Europe and the Orient...
...House on 56th Street (Warner). The story of a Manhattan residence. built for a bride in 1905 and re-opened as a speakeasy and gambling den in 1933, could contain material for a first-rate picture. The story of The House on 56th Street fails to do it justice. It is a gloomy but only mildly exciting chronicle about a turn-of-the-century chorus girl whose characteristic for being present at deaths by violence makes the house on 56th Street resemble a shooting box. Peggy Van Tyle (Kay Francis) enters it first as the happy bride of a slick...
...DEVIL'S DEN-Lawrence Saunders -Covici, Friede ($2). Murder in Connecticut's swank art colony; investigation by ex-Fireman Lundberg and friend stirs up scandal but exposes the criminal...
...reality, three times, says Biographer Woolf in a note) Flush was so kidnapped by these racketeers. Everybody, including Mr. Browning, advised Miss Barrett to refuse to pay ransom, sacrifice Flush on the altar of law & order. Miss Barrett indignantly refused, went herself to beard the chief racketeer in his den, finally got Flush back at an exorbitant price...
...what seems to be a sort of unwritten law among advisors, inquiring Freshmen are rarely if ever told that they may concentrate in History, English, or whatever other subject they desire and still enter Medical school as easily and as well prepared as the man who has left his den a Mallinckrodt only once or twice in four years. Nevertheless, it is quite possible so to plan a course that the minimum pre-Medical requirements may be got out of the way expeditiously, leaving sufficient time for the necessary courses in a non-scientific field. This scheme...