Word: preys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...catastrophe ensues. . . . The city dies. The nation without the vital lymph of youth and new generations, cannot resist and, being composed of cowardly old people, must necessarily fall a prey to younger peoples knocking at its deserted frontiers...
...vice. The lady of his piece is married to an urbane cuckold who regards benignantly her indiscretions with a pianist and financier. When he grows tired of her promiscuous activities, she evades his attempt to catch her. At the end, however, trapped with poetic justice, she falls prey to the advances of his private detective...
Sirs: In your otherwise accurate article on Egypt (TIME, July 30, p. 13) occurs the following: "If Great Britain abandoned them to true independence, they would again fall prey to some other Power-which Power would then control the Suez Canal. . . . For this reason the British Foreign Office has honestly and without hypocrisy proclaimed that control of Egypt is, for the British Empire, a measure of self defense." Five years' residence in Cairo, and conversations with British officials in many Departments prove to me that you credit them with a candor which they are far from claiming themselves...
However, Egyptians are not Britons. They are a weak people, for centuries the vassals of conquerors. If Great Britain abandoned them to true independence, they would again fall prey to some other Power-which Power would then control the Suez Canal, the chief route to India, vital artery of British trade...
Thorough frisking by detectives of their prey showed that all 42 of the creatures arrested lacked certificates showing that the legal taxes and import duties had been paid upon their diamonds. With anguished faces and painful stomachs, they watched while unswallowed diamonds to a total weight of 2,000 carats were swept and gathered up by the police...