Word: ferrets
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...fact, she may be secretly annoyed. Whence, then, do these stories come? Why, if there is no duck, is a duck thus strikingly exploited? Who is the duck's creator? A press agent is the gentleman who keeps The Stupidities before the public. It is his business to ferret out facts about the company, fashion them into entertaining if reading, hawk them among the dramatic editors. When the facts run dry he "plants" a story. His steadfast purpose is to keep The Stupidities in the headlines. If he is successful, the patient public parts with the aforesaid...
...vigorous campaign, on the part of those interested in the Library, to put an end to the unexplained disappearance of books. The enjoyment of the Union Library is remarkably unrestricted, and for the benefit of those who appreciate its freedom it would seem best for the Union to ferret out and punish the offenders...
...sift to the bottom the last piece of vandalism connected with the John Harvard statue, explains in itself the attitude the committee has taken. By their unaided personal efforts it can hardly be hoped that any practical result can be accomplished. Neither are they attempting by secret methods to ferret out the culprits. They are authorized student representatives, with the duty before them of vindicating the honor and good name of the University by calling to account those who have brought the disgrace upon the college public, and in order that this may be accomplished they call upon each individual...
...resolutions adopted by the students were empty words or would go for that; the only way for the students to make it perfectly plain that the outrages of Saturday were never to be repeated was to go to work vigorously to ferret out the offenders. Morever the action taken by the students Monday night was approved by the public press and apparently by the people at large. To fail to carry out the intentions of the previous meeting was tantamount to backing down from our position...
...plainly the sentiment of the meeting that the students should take some active part in the detection of the perpetrators of the outrage, and after considerable discussion it was voted that a portion of the money raised by subscription shall be devoted to employing officers to ferret out the miscreants...