Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closed season to be sure but comparatively quiescent since Wiggin, Chase et al were salted away last year, seems to be enjoying another period when game is plentiful. Samuel Insull, recently trapped after a long pursuit by Federal authorities, has now been followed by O. P. van Sweringen as prey to the righteous. Unlike the Insull case, which is virtually over with the exception of refunding losses to the suckers and casting Insull into durance vile, the van Sweringen affair may yet have repercussions which will make the Federal authorities wish they had given the high sign to the bank...
...must succeed in finding the assassins of the unfortunate counselor Albert Prince. . . . The country has been the prey of a band of evildoers who have recoiled before nothing to achieve their crimes. That band must be completely unmasked and punished...
...rather than satirical, these three poems sing of London love. A Stitch in Time, or Pride Prevents a Fall tells how Belinda nearly fell a prey to the importunity of a suitor, at the last minute saved her virtue when she remembered she had darned her green chemise with pink thread. In Love's Progress, or The Education of Araminta a serious-minded, Ruskin-loving girl runs the gamut of arty life, ends as the wedded wife of a Victorian-lover. Cupid's Changeling, or The Lady's Mistake recounts the comic error of a lady novelist...
...from The New Republic and another personal appeal. Excerpt: "I understand that Eastern Bankers and the Receivers . . . are evolving a scheme to seize the properties of our company for a mere fraction of their value. . . . Heartless Financial Giants ... and their allied Newsprint competitive company have marked us for their prey. . . ." Edward Wellington Backus was taken to the Minnesota prairies as a child during the Civil War. He worked his way through four years of college, tried carpentering, tried bookkeeping and finally borrowed $3,000 to buy a one-half interest in a small lumber company. Lumber led to paper...
...predecessors, being saved by the ingenious idea of having a father unaware of his high school daughter's fallen state and a daughter unaware of her conference-attending father's peccadilloes recognize each other on the brink of incest. The quick swoop of the lustful hawk onto his defenceless prey and the horror of the ensuing recognition provide a few tense moments in the long and wearisome record of the ruination of Ann Dixon...