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Word: lair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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More disastrous than the threatened floods, yesterday's unseasonable thaw flushed Lampoon editors out of their Gothic lair and into the streets of Cambridge for the most perverted gag the funnymen have pulled in many a long year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Poon Pet Show Enjoys Brief Glory | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

Reached last night in his North Station lair, a minor mogul of the B.&M. admitted he didn't know how long Snotrains have been running;"I couldn't even give you a judicious estimate. But let me toll you one thing, they're all equipped with luxurious modern air conditioned cars, and it only costs $3.25 round trip to North Conway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snotrain, Snobus Rescue Penniless But Eager Skiers | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

...common than to see him make a headlong entry into the schoolroom and with turbulent eye, singling out a lad, roar out, 'Od's my life, Sirrah, I have a great mind to whip you,'-then, with as sudden a retracting impulse, fling back into his lair, and after a cooling lapse of some minutes . . . drive headlong out again . . . with the expletory yell-'and I WILL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tales out of School | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Lunden also announced that those who applied for Holy Cross tickets can pick up their tickets now in his basemen lair, but the Dartmouth ducats will not be given out until Monday and Tuesday of next week. Rutgers tickets are currently in the works but will be ready for distribution two weeks hence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tiger Coupons Due At HAA Tomorrow | 10/14/1947 | See Source »

...most arresting figures in the motley hierarchy of Chinese Communism lunged from his lair last week. He was General Liu the One-Eyed Dragon. Liu's life dramatically paces the chronology of China's agony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: One-Eyed Dragon | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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