Word: dennings
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...Reno, Nev., eleven Chinamen were arrested in a raid on an opium den. A shepherd dog, owned by one of the Chinamen, followed his master to jail, spent the night pacing between his master's cell and the confiscated opium pipes in the chief of police's office...
...that distance lends enchantment and that the European point of view on this particular phase of American politics is due not only to a lack of understanding but also a lack of sympathy. Merely because an Esthonian philosopher is unable to understand why the majority of American male voters den themselves the Epicurean pleasures of liquors is hardly substantial foundation for branding the United States a matriarchate...
...Lexington, Ky. five rattlesnakes were killed. Into their den at the University of Kentucky a small rat was introduced, prospective meal for the snakes. Sleepy, the reptiles forgot their supper. Hungry, the rat attacked the snakes; killed all of them...
Casting aside the superficial resemblance of such privacy to that of an opium den, one may wonder at it nevertheless. Smoking, among men atleast, depends for its existence upon its sociability; if it were considered proper to smoke only in absolute privacy the habit would soon disappear. Nor is the masculine smoking room usually a place of retreat from the world: it is usually one of hospitality, if not downright conviviality. To an old story, however, it will now be necessary to make an addition. The Princeton man lights first your cigarette and then his; the Yale man lights first...
...broad Unter Den Linden, stands the Wilhelm I Palace; and in it, last week, the wife of Wilhelm II took up her residence, as she recently threatened to do (TIME, July...