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Word: preys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heir apparent was, last week, the Sovereign's cousin Alfred Aloyse, but he too will soon be dead and his estate the prey of tax gatherers. Therefore the succession to the Throne of Liechtenstein was allotted, last week, to fall upon Prince Alfred Aloyse's 18-year-old grandson, Prince Franz Joseph Marie Aloyse Alfred Charles Jean Henri Michel Georges Ignace Benoit Gerard Majella de Liechtenstein. Thus only one, not two sets of inheritance taxes, will have to be paid before young Prince Franz ascends his minute Throne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIECHTENSTEIN: Shrewd Old Prince | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...semicircle, these two always have the last word?at the expense of the ponderous master of ceremonies, Mr. Interlocutor. For "he is the father of all the foils in vaudeville, those well-dressed gentlemanly fellows of unimpeachable manners, who speak such painfully correct English and are such easy prey for the low buffoonery of their companions ... it is one of the laws of human drama that this should be so. ... The crowd likes nothing better than to see a half-wit get the better of a pompous intellectual. It restores confidence as it were." When he is in a tight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Original Specialty | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...captor, di Bari, produces an airplane, and flies his beautiful prey to a great stone cave in the mountains, where Janey expects crude camp fare, but finds instead all the comforts of home-roaring fires, fine books, kindly serving maids. At dinner appears the snivelling prince, captive too, to be tortured with the display of beauty that might have been his, but is now allotted to the bandit's delectation. Except by way of torturing the prince, di Bari's intentions are, however, honorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hollywood Bound | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...PREY BULLET DIAM. (Inches) BULLET NOSE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Self-Loader | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...their head, gallantly leading his last hunt, ran "Old Limber," Uncle Alf's famous fox-follower, whose picture once adorned in Nashville the State Capitol's walls. Baying excitedly, their notes cutting through the silent woods, the dogs circled. They closed in, relentlessly, on their furry, red prey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bogart's Barbecue | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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