Word: dens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue of TIME pleading for more simple English words" may be only that one reader's request, but won't you please consider those of us who delight in coming upon new or unusual words? To me, a perusal of your incomparable paper is fraught with hid den joys because of the sport attendant on sedulously ferreting out the meaning of such refreshingly unusual expressions. When I read TIME, a modern dictionary is usually at hand; otherwise, I mark the words as I happen upon them...
Joseph Caillaux, Finance Minister boarded a train in Paris attended only by his secretary. He was going single-handed to beard the English lion in its den. Particularly he was going to talk over the chequered table with Mr. Churchill...
...Desert Flower. Out of this gold-rush rumpus and all the dusty sentimentality of love in the desert, they have made an ice-cream-cone comedy that is as surprising as it is entertaining. The dance-hall den becomes a place of sweet lullabies and softened hearts. The dance-hall girls spread sunshine instead of sin. Colleen Moore is the girl in question, and never was her piquant presence more invigorating. She picks up a tramp, stiffens up his backbone, discovers he is a millionaire's son from the East...
...kept bad lions in a monstrous den; He fed up the lions on Christian men, are from Vachel Lindsay's Daniel, published in his collected poems...
...kept bad lions in a monstrous den...