Word: denning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...AMERICAN THESAURUS OF SLANG-Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark-Crowell...
...infused with the same spirit of the Christ (Matthew XXI: 12, 13) as He overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and also cracked, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves...
...days past on shore duty, I lost consistently at bridge, and at one time became a well-known loser at the University Club in Washington (a den of wolves ever on the alert for new lambs). Last night my partner held 13 spades. The circumstances were a bit unusual...
...first time since Russia launched its great counteroffensive on the central front on Dec. 6, Allied sympathizers last week were hauled up short by two strong hints that many more men must be lost and many more miles covered before victorious Red Armies parade along Unter den Linden and the Wilhelmstrasse. As a matter of cold fact, Adolf Hitler's retreating Armies were chins-up on at least two fronts...
...still summon up goosebumps. No crude spook or corpse melodrama, no bloody bundle of closet horrors, Angel Street, which played in London under the title Gaslight, has the good old English knack of brewing a thriller in a teacup, of making a Victorian parlor more menacing than an opium den, of giving to gaitered footsteps a carpet-slippery stealth. This spooky tale of London's gaslit era creates suspense, not by keeping the audience in ignorance, but by making it doubt what it knows. It builds up tension, not by hurrying its pace, but by slowing it down...