Word: preying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mistake of lending his wife to a Nordic fur-trader who gets her tipsy, rapes her and then allows her to shuffle off across the snow where his assistant shoots her under the pardonable delusion that she is a seal. For harpooning the fur-trader Mala becomes fair prey for two members of the Canadian Mounted Police. They inveigle him to their outpost by treacherous subterfuges. Mala breaks out of their handcuffs, starts home to the two new wives a friend has lent him, eating the members of his dog team as he goes. The police finally catch up with...
...even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage-earner-the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction-is practically defenseless. He relies for work upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. ... He can neither prey on the misfortunes of others nor hoard his labor. . . . All history warns us against rash experiments which threaten violent changes in our monetary standard and the degradation of our currency. . . . Every unstable and fluctuating dollar fails as a basis of credit, and in its use begets gambling, speculation and undermines...
...early morning of Aug. 17. Then 25 masked men raided the Prison Farm, seized Frank in his night clothes, streaked cross-country by automobile to Marietta where Mary Phagan had been born. When the sun came up Leo Frank's corpse dangled from an oak tree near Prey's gin mill. After it was cut down, a man ground his heel into its pallid face. Said the Marietta Journal: "We regard the hanging of Leo Frank as an act of law abiding citizens." Georgia's condemnation at the time was nationwide...
...desert south of the Atlas Mountains. In a slow encircling movement he herded them northwest to the rim of the desert. His plodding columns closed in from north, east and southeast like beaters in a lion hunt. On the south and southwest, crack Legion regiments waited for the prey to enter the trap. Slowly, suspiciously, the Berbers, carrying their women and children, rode into the mountains up four confluent valleys a year ago last spring. The trap was sprung...
...after day by the headlines of the 'penny dreadfuls.' ... A bunch of sneak thieves and neighborhood bums are ballyhooed into a ferocious gang. . . . The reporters and editors of the yellow papers act as pressagents for these criminals. . . . The people, having been terrorized by the pressagents, are easier prey for them. [Moreover] every police chief knows that a hunted criminal watches the sensational newspapers to keep him posted on the developments of the search for him. . . ." Why should yellow newspapers be able to get and print such news? Editor Bingay was sympathetic. "A courageous police chief, a fearless prosecutor...