Word: prowl
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...handful of U.S. foreign filmaddicts saw limpid Ingrid Bergman play a horribly disfigured heroine in , Swedish production called A Woman's Face. Their joyous squeals got through to jawboned, saucer-eyed Joan Crawford, an actress who had played the G out of Glamor and was on the prowl for a seamy vehicle. Miss Crawford saw A Woman's Face, gulped, took the plunge...
Promptly Husband Pough began a systematic prowl through Manhattan's stores and warehouses. He picked up feathers of 40 species of wild birds, including the whistling swan, osprey. great blue heron. A dozen firms sold plumage of the American bald eagle, although it is protected by act of Congress. Great stocks of foreign plumage-from Siberian storks, Philippine pelicans, Argentine rheas-drifted in through customs loopholes...
...national record was held by a boy laborer in an East Coast town who admitted 63 separate thefts. Police doubled anti-looting squads sent nightly to prowl in freshly bombed districts; magistrates doubled penalties, sometimes gave the twelvemonth maximum. More looters were held over for the Old Bailey, where sentences could be as high as death or imprisonment for life...
Turkey. If the rival mobs began to shoot it out in the Southeast, a good deal of the gunplay would take place in Turkey's front yard, the Dardanelles. With Italy's fleet on the prowl, Turkey sent her 23,000-ton, model 1911 battle cruiser Yavuz (the onetime famed German raider Goeben) and other naval units into the Sea of Marmara lying between the Dardanelles and the Bosporus. Russia began maneuvers in the Black Sea after having laid mines off her main port Odessa and the oil port Batum...
...spot on the continent of Europe, large or small, was safe. Not since the first decade of the 19th Century, when Bonaparte was on the prowl, had panic so seized Europe. Caught in the relentless pressure of power politics, the politicians of the smaller nations were as helpless as their people. The fate of their countries was in the hands of belligerents and near-belligerents; neutrality no longer seemed possible...