Word: dens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that run his syndicated column, Walter Winchell has been having trouble. He is feuding with so many enemies-e.g., the New York Post ("New York Poo," "Postitute," "Compost"), Disk Jockey Barry Gray ("Borey Pink," "a disk jerk") and Columnist Leonard Lyons* ("author of the 'Liar's Den' "), that editors and readers outside Manhattan often don't know what Winchell is talking about. As a result, editors have been cutting or killing many of his columns. Last week Winchell announced a plan to stop the mayhem. He will set aside two days a week for feuds...
Practice also includes an extensive course in first aid, which 15 men are taking this fall. The Red Cross lecturer, says Steve Den Hartog gives the standard helpful hints, as well as subtle anecdotes. Such is the tale of the man who leaped from a cliff after being bitten by a rattlesnake, thus solving the problem of a mountainside cure...
When Voorhees came back to the U.S. last year on rotation, he went to the Army to discuss clearance. Voorhees says a long list of changes was den^anded not only in references to the press but to the generals. He was too critical of MacArthur, and the book had slighting references to other Army officers. Voorhees made some changes, but not all that were demanded, arguing that the censoring of his book was based on "personal prejudice." The Army replied that the book was bound to create ill feeling between the press and Army and make it harder...
...drags anchor. For Tamara is a Lesbian, too neurotically selfish for anything but a perverted counterfeit of love. But to the innocent eyes of Hélene, Tamara's brusque, boyish charm, her low voice "rough as a cat's tongue," her disordered flat, a jungle den of cigarette smoke and weird African masks, has all the magnetic pull of an adolescent daydream come true...
...den into which Tamara gradually draws Helene turns out blacker than any jungle; it is a total eclipse of the soul. As their strange relationship progresses, both shame and secret jealousy prevents Hélene from telling her father that she even sees Tamara. One day Tamara demands that she tell him, and slaps her viciously when she fails to do so. In a sobbing flare-up of independence, Hélene cries, "You'll never see me again!" and leaves...