Word: dens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lead in the case turned up during a police raid on a Havana den. Among the evidence was a coded letter which indicated that a Cuban government official was mixed up in the big-time drug traffic. Last week after he stepped off the plane from Lima, waiting detectives nabbed Rafael Menacho Vicente, 55, Cuban consul to Peru. In his diplomatic pouch was a package containing two pounds of cocaine, worth around $10,000 in the underworld...
...almost everything. Samples: "How to wash and iron curtains," "How to stop rot," and how to remove crust from a baby's head. Upper-middle-class expressions such as maid's room, library and master bedroom are taboo. (B. H. & G. says added bedroom, den and owners' bedroom.) There are no "housewives"; they are all "home-makers." B. H. & G. admits that its constant touting of homemaking techniques, products and services sometimes makes it "hard to tell the articles from the ads." But it also makes it easy for B. H. & G. to lirffe up profitable...
...managed to get the painting out. In the meantime, he had located a buyer; he sold the Van Gogh, for a price so high that "no one would believe it," to Cinemagnate William Goetz, who insured it for $200,000, took it to California and hung it in his den...
...candlelight subtly augmented by spotlights. The first night was an invitation show, intended for 500 closely screened art lovers, from Thomas Mann to Shirley Temple. For the next couple of days, anybody could look at it. Then it would go back to blaze in Mr. Goetz's den...
Judging by its appearance in Holiday, Harvard had now attained a new status. Descriptions like "Den of Dolts" and "Cloister of Cerebrums" were now old hat. Harvard had become a Resort, and Vag was dumbfounded. Why hadn't someone tipped him off sooner? Why had he gone on believing that Harvard was a struggle, an endurance test, an academic hoop race? Now it turned out that Vag, the academic renegade, had been the only one on the right track and had never realized his good fortune...