Word: dense
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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He was shocked by conditions he saw in India: the opium dens of Calcutta, the wandering lepers crying "Baksheesh," the filth and poverty of the villages. "I learned that one meal a day was all the majority of the people could count on . . . In those villages it took no effort...
Lady pictures the how of a gambler's obsession with a good deal of plausibility. Especially skillful are Barbara Stanwyck's hard-breathing, glitter-eyed performance at the gaming tables, and Russell Metty's feverish camera work in & out of the neon-lighted dens of Las Vegas...
After he watched for a while, Mike went into action. By the time he began to move, rumors were going the rounds that he had actually been elected by Multnomah County gambling interests. He denied it, and to prove that he wasn't fibbing, began raiding gambling dens right...
Every afternoon, the members emerge from their separate dens for tea and talk. Among them: Albert Einstein, crack Mathematician Oswald Veblen (nephew of famed Economist Thorstein Veblen) and the institute's new boss, Physicist J. Robert ("Oppy") Oppenheimer.
Seasonal vicissitudes combined with the necessity for secrecy have led many cardaddicts to a game involving less suspicion: the ancient pastime of Hearts, now raging from the smoky dens of Eliot to the leather-cushioned bistros of Jordan's Marsh. Inscrutable shyster Robert S. Takeacard (Anycard) '48 smirked over his...