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...Abdul Hamid became more & more a prey to his fears." related Philadelphia's harem Princess. "The Sultan kept a revolver in his hand by night and by day. . . . He shot his own child when the little one lifted a revolver that lay on the table. The playful hand might be the instrument of a woman's revenge and the Sultan knew better than anyone else that no tool is too weak to inflict a death wound. . . . This fear, this perpetual watchfulness, required that the concubines must be changed from night to night, so that his very pleasures were...
Rollins College proved an easy prey is the Varsity fencers yesterday, as the Crimson forces triumphed, 14-3. Coach Rene Perey's blade-wielders enter the clash against Yale Saturday with a defeat from Navy alone...
Stalks His Prey...
...while Mr. Hoeing was walking by Stoughton and Hollis that he smelled a rat and began to stalk his prey just as his illustrious ancestors in colonial days. Only a few half-awake Freshmen raised their heads to watch their doughty proctor encounter the animal with his stick...
Lincoln Kirstein's article on photography shows a keen awareness of the inherent limitations of the art, and the dangers to which it is likely to be a prey when it tries to peach on the preserves of landscape or portrait painting...