Word: preying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steps which clarify the issue between faithful reporting and jingoism are worthwhile. Any action which brings the issue to the fore at times such as the present, when men the world over are prey to a rising tide of propaganda, has decided value--provided always that there be no misunderstanding as to motives. So long as everyone appreciates the aims of the Liberal Club in circulating its petition that the University Theatre eliminate the Hearst Metrotone News from its program, great good can be accomplished in adding yet another bit of evidence of the opinion of intelligent men and women...
...citizens unversed in Nature proud to acknowledge the bald eagle as their national bird and emblem. Shocking to patriots are the facts that their bird is a bully, thief, coward, eater of carrion. It is so lazy that rather than hunt its own food it prefers to steal the prey of smaller birds. Better yet it likes to avoid all effort by finding its meal rotting in the sun. When Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were appointed in 1776 to design a national seal, they chose the double eagle of the Holy Roman Empire. After lesser...
...India; twins were common in his family. Arthur's wife put him on a nourishing diet, made him take unaccustomed exercise. Stephen had a horror feminae ever since an impassioned girl had bitten his ear in broad daylight in a Florentine cafe, but he nearly fell an unwilling prey to a legacy-stalking female. Hilary was too settled a spinster to change her ways...
...seventh time in two years to the firesides of "My Friends." Sounding a little querulous at first, he soon became strong, brave, confident as ever. ¶ Housing Administrator James A. Moffett, having resigned (TIME, April 15), indiscreetly paid a farewell call at the White House. Once more he fell prey to Franklin Roosevelt's persuasion, announced that instead of resigning he would take a three months' trip around the world, then return to his job in Washington. ¶ Since the World War, U. S. Presidents have grown accustomed to dunning other nations to pay their debts. President Roosevelt...
...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...