Word: lairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (RKO Radio) is a farcical love story with some genuinely new angles, some of them genuinely amusing. When Bobby-Soxer Shirley Temple falls head over socks for Bachelor Gary Grant, she invades his lair so compromisingly that he is jailed. But Shirley's big sister Myrna Loy, a judge, hands out a light penalty: he only has to squire the child around until her infatuation wears...
...From a hidden cove on the southern coast of France, five sea dogs had swooped out in a high-powered motor launch. Armed with submachine guns and dressed as customs men, they boarded an unsuspecting Italian freighter, locked the crew in the hold and sailed away to their pirate lair with 2½ tons of U.S. cigarets- in 20th Century Europe, a treasure as fabulous as Captain Kidd...
...slowly through the Yard. He was drearily humming the tune whose words went ". . . sleeping in the noonday sun." It seemed the whole city of Cambridge was sleeping, like some Italian village. The rush and stir of exams, Commencement, and Reunion had passed. Tercentenary Theater had returned to its unknown lair from which it would not emerge until next June; the Yard was shady, quiet, and deserted. Ivy-covered Widener frowned down on ivy-covered Emerson and ivy-covered Sever. Vag was sorry that he had stayed in Cambridge. Better to have gone almost anywhere--New York, Maine...
...Jefferson Coolidge, Class of 1850, are awarded annually to the best speakers in the trials for the Harvard-Yale-Princeton debates. This year's H-Y-P contests will take place tomorrow night, when one Debate Council team will journey down to Princeton to meet the Tiger in its lair, while another trio will oppose Yale here...
Yard cops visiting the Wigglesworth lair 15 minutes later found the flingers still brushing up on technique. An England A section man they had beaned; the Deans will take action tomorrow...