Word: denning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grendel's Den...
...produced more dubious double entendres than anyone before or since. Some are readily perceived: Hamlet's announcement, "Then came each actor on his ass," meant then what it does now. In the first Elizabethan world - when there were some 40 euphemisms for sexual organs (including will, dial and den)-almost every passage twinkled with lewdness. Like today's cheerless smut, the Elizabethan bawdiness was both deplored and exploited. The nonsexual slang has traveled with greater success: here are the witches in Macbeth, telling each other to "cool it"; here is Anthony in Julius Caesar: "I have neither...
Botched Story. Whole columns were deservedly devoted to such coups. But "The Lyons Den" more typically had the flair of a railway timetable. Lyons' prose strained toward the average, and his penchant for missing, mangling or omitting entirely the kicker of anecdotes was the despair of his sources. During the World War II point system of rationing managed by the Office of Price Administration, George S. Kaufman said that Lyons "missed so many points that he was under investigation by the OPA." One botched Lyons story: after Noel Coward had made some disparaging remarks about Brooklyn and earned...
...President's homes in Key Biscayne and San Clemente were "primarily for the President's personal benefit." Most of the questioned items were at San Clemente. They included $388.78 for an exhaust fan to keep the fireplace from smoking, $1,600 to enlarge four windows in the den and $998.50 for repairs on the family gazebo...
Patients are asked to record the length of time they spend eating, the time of eating, the place (the living room, kitchen or den), what else they are doing (talking, cooking, reading, watching TV), whom they are with and whether they are sitting, standing or lying down. The degree of hunger is also noted-none to mild, mild to extreme-and their mood: neutral, tense, fatigued or rushed. "By using the charts we help the patients identify what particular constellations of behavior lead to an increase in caloric intake," says Levitz. "Once those are isolated, we can suggest techniques...