Word: lair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most usual lair of embryo plots of the sort which Mr. Brown and the Traveler hunt seems to be the police station. A volley of shots, a crash of glass, a succession of piercing shrieks,--and a complete detective story has clicked itself off on the Corona. Simple, what...
...there be found such a chapter of shame in American history as that which contains the names of Fall, Edwin Denby, Harry M. Daugherty, Charles R. Forbes, Gaston B. Means, and a host of jackals who followed in their trail?" At Milwaukee, Charles G. Dawes went to the lair of LaFollettism to attack, not 'because the Republicans hope for success there, but rather because of the compelling interest which comes to those who attack the lion in his den. He declared that the LaFollette plank, which would permit Congress to override a decision...
...company of ex-Deputy Andre Tardieu, quondam French High Commissioner to the U. S., went U. S. Financier Bernard M. Baruch to sunny Vendee to take a "peek" at the "Tiger," ex-Premier Georges Clemenceau, in his lair. Said "Barney...
...Crimson victory in the first game, upsetting the predictions of the dopesters, and the neck-and-neck struggle in the Tiger's own lair, which went to Princeton only after a ninth inning rally, will offset in some measure the comparative scores which make the Orange and Black the favorite for tomorrow. Upsets are all too common in such series, and the final verdict may depend, as it did in the second game, on which team gets the breaks...
Toulmin will probably pitch for Harvard with Brown as an outside chance. Coach Slattery will almost certainly hold Spalding in reserve for the invasion of Tigers' lair on Saturday...