Word: preys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cheap fame with the pamplet Caligula." Indeed, few Germans could recall, last week, the full title of that pamphlet: "Caligula: A Study of Caesarean Insanity." When published, it temporarily wrecked the good Professor's academic career?for in it he dared to suggest that Wilhelm II might fall a prey to that madness born of power which destroyed the reason of the Roman Emperor Caligula (12-41). Because Professor Quidde has continued all his life to militate against militarism and to propagate German peace societies, he loomed, last week, as a distinguished "fraternizer" in the Nobel sense...
...only in a pecuniary sense is the aviatrix pursuing a wise course. The surest way to kill the insatiable demon of publicity is to give it all it wants and more--to attend receptions, have pictures taken, and appear on the stage until the demand, disgusted with such easy prey, turns to more elusive subjects such as the reticent Mr. Coolidge or the secretive government of Rumania. With her contract in vaudeville finished, as well as her connections with movies, beauty clays, and other such gold mines, Miss Elder may retire, as safe from the headlines as the pilot...
...Student Vagabond, having arrived at the ripe old age of three years, intends to delve into the past, and see what he can find; like the oysterman who drops his rake through the dark waters with the hope of bringing to light at least a few of his stolid prey and perhaps sometimes a rare gem, or like that other, humbler artisan who enriches--but then that is beside the point...
Soviet philosophy allows no restraint to be put on children. Even in the schools a student studies only those subjects he fancies. These wolflike boys and girls, all about the age of 13 or 14, are thus allowed to prey upon society because they prefer to prey and to roam the country, although homes have been provided for them and some 1,900,000 have thus been taken care of, taught trades, etc. But the homes are evidently not all they are supposed to be, for recently the head of one institution was arrested because he placed iodine...
...higher rose the Rhine, greater and greater became the pressure of the angry, swollen current and, finally, the huge 5,000-foot dam between Switzerland and the tiny principality of Liechtenstein burst and the water shot down the mountain side like 10,000 enraged tigers pouncing on their prey...