Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play next follows the adventures of the Nun. She is taken from the Knight by the Robber Count, and passes in turn into the hands of the Prince and the Emperor. Whoever possesses her is dogged by death, the Emperor killing the Prince, and then himself falling prey to the revolution that breaks out against...
...dreamer goes home startled, curious, full of vague notions and curiosity, a prey to delicious contemplation of the "sublimations" from "suppressed desires" her (his) friend has hinted, more or less darkly, more or less ignorantly. Practising "doctors of psychoanalysis" are not now uncommon in the world, charlatans of the sort that has battened on prevailing mental and medical fads since a skulking witch-doctor first sold a pickled dog's eye to a savage with a bellyache...
...chanced to read your name in connection with a triviality of $900. The discovery was amazing, a sheer piece of luck, which we wish you to share. Nothing could be more painful to the management than that non-settlement of this peccadillo, this bagatelle, this merest nothing, should prey upon your conscience. We assure you, therefore, it is absolutely payable immediately. A check for this drollery will close your most desirable account, and we insist on this lest its postponement give you anxiety. Solicitously yours...
...unhurried, reaching its culmination in the General examinations. On the other hand is the archaic examination system reducing travelling to a series of periodic packings and last minute spurts. The two structures are mutually repellent, the future suffers for the sake of the immediate, tutorial work becomes a prey to the "throw a few facts in your suitcase" method, and college becomes analagous to the business cycle, a period of rapid expansion succeeded by a period of more rapid depression. In order to stabilize scholarship the examination must as far as possible be exiled from Harvard education...
...That section of the press which is ready to stop at nothing to increase its circulation and to make more money, is a beast of prey let loose upon long-suffering humanity. It is the duty of all Governments to devise means to check its activities...