Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sportsmen's Club, Inc., of Los Angeles. A fortnight ago, a director of that corporation declared it would fence off 50,000 Californian acres-20,000 for carnivorous creatures, 30,000 for milder fauna-and save U. S. sportsmen the trouble of trekking over the globe for exotic prey. There would be "annual buffalo hunts"; one would bag one's lion or leopard "between a game of tennis and a round of golf." Further details of so imaginative a venture were lacking...
...meat of that killing is treife, unclean; it taints whatever it touches, and it were better for a man to cut off his right hand than to eat of it. Certain beasts are of themselves unclean?the pig, the camel and the hare; all carnivorous beasts, all birds of prey, all creeping things. Others, when slaughtered according to the law of Shehitah, are kosher...
...history and there is no denial that she has been his constant ally. I was further informed that when Bela Kun was taken from jail it was the Countess who was his escort on that occasion. We have deported the Emma Goldmans and others whose sufferings make them prey to any people, whether communistic or nihilistic. And the en tire policy of the Government is the prohibition of just the type of undesirable as Countess Karolyi. ... I regret having to launch an attack upon a woman, but the issue is too important for squeamishness...
...Stagg Field, Chicago, there was carnage. All unwitting, a team from Indiana strayed in and fell prey to the fierce Chicago backfield, the potent Chicago line. When all was over, folk said Chicago is fiercer this year than any conference eleven-except Illinois. The score, which could have been worse: Chicago 23, Indiana...
Foreign Affairs?Edmond Lcfcbvre Du Prey...