Word: lair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaped two naval lieutenants, an army sergeant and two corporals of Gendarmerie, all pointing pistols which made the guards run. Bursting into the Premier's lobby, the five attackers found it guarded by Policeman Yasomatsu Hirayama. They shot him, forced their way on into the helpless Old Fox's lair. Screamed his daughter-in-law: "Please let us escape...
Like a hoary ground hog looking for a shadow, Rudyard Kipling has again ventured from his Sussex lair. But either his spring is late or Mr. Kipling has passed to disembodied immortality and the twilight of the gods. No shadow falls. This first new fiction volume of Kipling in six years, a collection of 14 stories, 19 verses, conveys chiefly an aged emptiness. The stories are, of course, masterfully told, but they are not masterpieces...
When he comes back, he has trouble with his sister (Ann Dvorak). Tony suspects someone of ruining her, immediately shoots him. The police trace Tony to his lair. Instead of shooting him, they shoot his sister. Tony survives just long enough to prove himself a coward. His riddled corpse is last seen in a gutter...
...Bill" Danforth's rightful lair is in Boston. Even before 1929 fortune made several spectacular visits to him, tarried and vanished. The first market break found him in a good cash position and he exuberantly began "selling the list," and he sold time and again. Soon the Danforth legend began to grow (TIME, Oct. 28, 1929). His tall, lean figure became familiar in the inner sanctums of Manhattan's speculating circles. Indian-like in appearance, he maintained an Indian's calm, made no tactical blunders. Aged 45, he likes golf, plays at the Westchester Country Club with...
Stalkers of New York City's perennially bumptious bogey, Corruption (see p. 12). discovered last week that it had a hitherto unsuspected lair: the schoolroom. Three weeks ago Dr. Maxwell Ross, chairman of the Allied Local School Boards of Brooklyn, learned that his personal cards were being distributed at the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club in Brooklyn. Puzzled, suspecting no connection with school affairs, he hired Max B. Krone, private detective, to investigate. Detective Krone unearthed two slick racketeering rings, piled up evidence that they boasted of political "hook-ups," promised small favors to all who would pay for them...