Word: lair
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...Oomph Girl's latest episode takes place in the lair of the Princeton Tiger, but like many of her cinema appearances, it has that faintly reminiscent "this-is-where-I-came-in" odor...
...know where they were, whether they were idle, how they could be put to work. Neither Transportation Defense Commissioner Ralph Budd nor American Association of Railroads President John Pelley could tell him. The Senators decided to get hold of Messrs. Budd and Pelley, track the tank cars to their lair...
Until last week Ernie Pyle, an inconspicuous little man, with thinning reddish lair and a shy, pixy face, was not celebrated as a straight news reporter. Once, for a few years, he was managing editor of he Washington News against his better judgment, distinguished himself by putting the arrest of Hauptmann, kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby, at the bottom of page 1. But five years ago Ernie left Washington, went to New Mexico for a rest. He sent some informal stories to the News about things and people around him, soon got a roving commission from Scripps-Howard to write...
They fought with elemental fierceness. The lair was threatened. They captured heights by making draft animals of themselves. Even the women dragged cannon behind them. In charges the hairy evzones came screaming, their white skirts flapping like osprey wings. There was no thought -as there often was among the Italians -for personal safety. One young Greek aviator, out of ammunition, flew his plane smack into an Italian plane...
...week's end Witnesses walked into the lions' den for fair, vowed they would hold their national convention this week at Detroit, lair of that most militant of Catholics, Father Coughlin, and only a river away from forbidden Canada...