Word: prowl
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...Mayor Walker pondered over the hotel owners' plaints, as have the mayors of many a lesser me-troplis. Last week he forbade apartment hotel tenants to cook in their rooms. Building inspectors and fire inspectors hereafter will prowl around the boroughs looking, sniffing for kitchenette violations...
Zizi, a desperate young thing, wandered through the Bois de Boulogne, where lovers are wont to prowl. But the lovers had fled far away leaving the Bois empty, save for gendarmes. Three days Zizi spent in the park while the man who had first wooed her from the Malayan jungle, wrung his hands in distress. Then one morning she left the park to visit a boys' school. The master spied her, called gendarmes. She fled into a lavatory, jumped out of a window, but the gendarmes pursued her with bullets and she died in a ditch. The leopard hunter...
...second and final act in an apartment owned by the Negro's wealthy parents. Ella, the white wife, will love her husband but hate his race. Her nerves will run out to insanity as he struggles in vain to pass his examinations at the Law School. She will prowl about with a carving knife and interfere with his study. She will go quite mad. He, finally despairing, but still adoring her, will play games with her as he did when they both were little tots. Neither of them will have been able to stand the gaff. So, curtain...
...doubt if you would find six undergraduates who would spend ten minutes competing for the post of editor. In fact, my recollection is that at the close of the academic year, when the editorial chair of the Isis was about to become vacant, the outgoing editor used to prowl about the university vainly beseeching student after student to fill the thing. A man would be anything rather than an editor. A. P. HERBERT of "Punch" New York Evening Post
...which is now becoming a common occurrence at the tennis courts on Jarvis Field. Now that the Leiter Cup baseball series is finished, Nortons Field no longer offers to "muckers" the opportunity for stealing bats, gloves, etc., that it did before. Accordingly they have shifted their hunting grounds, and prowl instead about the courts on Jarvis Field. Racquets are stolen less frequently than balls, but in either case there is no necessity for such a nuisance...