Word: dens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Czech men greet women by saying 'Rukullbám' (I kiss your hand) but Communists say only `Dorbý den' (Good day) and give you the back of their hand...
...potbellied landowners and their sensitive sons, a world of meaningless propriety, duels, love affairs with actresses; a world so hedged about with tradition that it is a scandal when a young officer leaves the army to manage the family estate. It is the other side of German romanticism-Unter den Linden with the leaves off the trees; champagne parties with the girls sick in the lavatories and the young men ashamed of their fathers' wild oats; elder sons killed in duels they do not want to fight and younger sons sent off to cadet schools they do not want...
Among College idlers in the Square rumor has it that the sign "William L. Tutin, Bookseller," marks the entrance to a den of subversive activities. "It looks mighty suspicious to me," said one passerby, referring to the three frock-coated, be-spectacled employees scurrying to and fro in a seemingly pointless...
...water yellow and dirty. . . . Here we missionaries can live only in hiding. Here are many churches, but only a few which are not Red schools, assembly halls, headquarters, or depots for grain confiscated from the people. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon we arrive at the den of the Reds. The sick Father, a Chinese secular priest, is lying on his bed, pale and exhausted. The village Christians tell me that the Father is spiritually rather than physically sick...
Bearded in his den late last night. DAR confidently promised liquid inspiration and his presence at tonight's 7:30 o'clock reception for constructive scribbling aspirants...