Word: lair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...throat lair known (because of the scum that frequents it), as the Dust Heap, a stealer of women brings a supposedly half-breed female ward of a priest, under the transparent pretence that her guardian wants her. He turns her over to his French Canuck pal, who starts dragging her significantly up the stairs...
...always accompanied by the scent of lavender." Such was "The Lavender Dragon" as described by the frightened villagers of Eden Philpott's story to SFr Jasper and his squire as they set forth to slay the creature who had been carrying men, women, and children off to his lair...
...While many of the boys of today are feverishly putting on the golf green, Cal was happy in pursuing to its lair the sportive potato. . . . He early became an adept in divorcing the lowing herd which winds slowly o'er the lea from the raw material which makes for butter and cheese...
...bananas. In Delmar, Del., George Morris, a plumber, was obliged to dig a hole under a house. Crawling in, he felt a stinging sensation on one arm, felt something wrapping itself around his leg. Investigation showed that Morris, who was later removed to a hospital, had invaded the lair of 27 fierce snakes. On behalf of the town of Chipley, Fla., the Orange County Chamber of Commerce branded as " a silly lie, false and absurd," the story (broadcasted a month ago through the press of the nation) that colored babies were being used at Chipley for alligator bait...
...with ferocious animals. If it is not the growl of the Bull-dog, it is the roar of the Tiger; and today when the estimable puritanical gentleman goes down into the Palmer Stadium, he will be very wary, for he has felt the Tiger's claws. In his lair the Tiger is particularly wily. But John will watch his step and keep his finger on the trigger, for only twice in the past has be "done in" the Tiger in his new Stadium...