Word: preyed
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...there are audiences which go to the theatre only for filth. Honest dramatic effort is twisted by these perverted minds into the foulest shapes. The play itself is just as sincere an attempt to depict life as it was before they saw it, and yet immediately it becomes the prey of censors and reformers, a danger to public morals...
...Isle of Vanishing Men. Again, a savage island picture, the most glamorous part of which is its title. The cannibals revealed in it, a prey to the devouring diseases of civilization, are akin to Barnum's dog-faced man. Their vanishing, from the samples shown here, will not make them missed. Wildly advertised orgies have been emasculated, till all that remains is a form of nocturnal shimmying by the tribe...
...Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones testified in regard to certain earlier testimony by General Mitchell. He said, in regard to the General's declaration that the Philippines would fall an easy prey to air attack, that of course the islands could be taken, but it could not be done by aircraft without a Navy. Two weeks, the time suggested for such a feat, he believed was "a pretty short time." Airplanes, he said, were essential as auxiliaries...
...issue, but in a number of little ones, and is mainly a symptom of general irritation. Harvard men have got the notion,--perhaps it was the foot-ball season which put in into their heads that their University is losing ground, and not knowing the situation fully are a prey to exaggerated fears. They are worrying about all sorts of things that aren't so: the other day a loyal graduate complained to me about the need of changing the policy of a certain department, and was relieved to hear that it had already been changed two years ago. They...
...naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey...