Word: preying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Tallulah Bankhead's flounced all over the stage with the abandon of the late Texas Guinan. In accounting for Miss Bankhead's failure to shade her various denunciations of the preacher who wanted to bring Sadie to salvation by way of a penitentiary sentence, only to fall prey to her allure, most commentators fell back on the observation that Miss Eagels' Sadie was "mental" where Miss Bankhead's is "physical." But all were agreed that if Tallulah Bankhead, after her spectacularly successful years in London, wants to stay home and fill the niche that Jeanne Eagels...