Word: preying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major war and should join in cracking down on Il Duce. The Archbishop of York publicly hoped that the League of Nations will ask and obtain aid of the Great Powers to close the Suez Canal against Italian forces, thus barring the eagles of Fascism from their prey. Finally up from the French baths of Aix heaved Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and, amid a sensational recalling of the whole British Cabinet from their various vacation hideouts, the Empire was geared for action. Arriving from Scotland one-time Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald cried: "The present situation is the most serious...
...indulged in some extemporaneous lush German sentiment: "The other day at the zoo I saw some German children watching the play of doves and lambs. Their faces were radiant with happiness. Then I saw some Jewish children and their Jewish teachers. They had eyes only for the beasts of prey, lions and tigers and the slinking lynx! Why? Because blood calls to blood! For thousands of years the Jews have lived by preying upon other people...
...Revolution is scarcely yet upon the home horizon. . . . But Japan has fallen prey to the graft, corruption and slackness that have undermined so many empires in the past...
Undisciplined, purposeless, irresponsible, the great names in "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age careen from vulgarity to greater vulgarity, while poseurs prey on ignorance and snobbishness, social climbers spend fortunes trying to get accepted. Elizabeth Drexel Lehr fell in love, waited until after her mother's death to plan her divorce. Then her lover died. Harry Lehr had quieted down, showed symptoms of acute melancholia before the War, which finally put an end to his way of life. He grew more & more morose; his mind slowly failed; he became panic-stricken at the thought of his despised wife...
...correspondent for The Nation, a national women's debating champion, a War veteran. The Negroes danced with Mamie and Regina. The intellectuals informed the girls that they were on their way to make an investigation of Cuban tyranny and undercover U. S. capitalist influence in Cuba. Their particular prey was to be ''America's butcher boy in Cuba," U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery. Every one of them was, moreover, the official representative of a portentous-sounding Union, League, Association, Order or Committee. And they bought drinks and talked. Mamie and Regina suddenly had visions...