Word: dens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent life in words that contracted the world's dimensions more strikingly than air-travel statistics and which made peace terms seem more real than all the speeches of statesmen: "From de war we ain't had enough. From de Joimans we ain't had enough. Den dem bandit fellers come and dey boint down de houses' and boint my horse and four sheepses. Excuse my English, but can't you folks do something for us folks...
...Jackson, whose real name, according to the Mexican police, is Jacques van den Dreschd (he is a Belgian traveling on false Canadian papers), is still in a Mexico City jail. A month ago, Manhattan's socialist New Leader reported that the FBI, at the request of the Mexican Government, was working on his case. Jackson had committed an assassin's No. 1 crime: he had failed to escape. Said the New Leader: the Mexican police have discovered that the NKVD is now trying to liquidate Jackson; the operation is in charge of a little-publicized U.S. woman Communist...
...Majesty's Major General Eric Mansergh had flown into Den Pasar from his Surabaya headquarters. The Netherlands' towheaded Colonel Fritz ter Meulen had arrived with his two-battalion Dutch occupation force. Japanese Army Colonel Kobungo Tsunuka and his naval sidekick, Captain Shizuo Okuyama, gravely waddled across Den Pasar's village square and presented their swords to the British commander. But only 300 Balinese solemnly watched the surrender. Exclaimed an officer who had known pageant-loving Bali before the war: "Godalmighty, there would have been 10,000 at a celebration like this...
...last week for a brief lecture tour (stops at Yale, Harvard, Princeton). He put up at a genteel midtown hotel-partly because he could find no other lodging, partly because it did not matter: he has a bohemian preference for unpretentious surroundings; in Paris, the literary lion makes his den in the dingy, unheated Hotel Louisiane. Few Americans had heard even vaguely of earnest, ebullient Jean-Paul Sartre, novelist, playwright, essayist and prophet of the philosophy of life known as "Existentialism." But more were likely to become aware of him and his message...
...Miss Garland rides the railroad and sings the song for all and maybe a little more than it's worth. As one of the Harvey girls, she also fires pistols, plunges wholeheartedly into catfights with dancehall girls and falls in love with the owner of the local gambling den-bold, bad Ned Trent (John Hodiak). At bottom, of course, Ned is not too bad, for on the sly he reads Longfellow and admires the rugged scenery. Besides, there is a still bigger crook in town called Judge Purvis (Preston Foster...