Word: vandalizes
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...even an ex-Prime Minister could preserve her from the sight of American soldiers pinching British womanhood, or -most "sinister portent" of all-"the spectacle of London without her railings. It was almost like seeing Queen Victoria without her clothes ... The parks . .. the sacrosanct squares . . . flung open to the vandal incursions of children and dogs." Even that oak of ages, the English language, had changed. Monica heard for the first time of such things as jazz, lounge lizards, isolationism, the Lambeth Walk, cocktails, robots, striptease, Hollywood and bright young thing...
Spoonerman, fly-by-night vandal whose trail of filched larders has caused considerable breakfast table anguish, added Leverett House to his list of victims yesterday morning. The 500 spoons he carried off were retrieved in a Leverett lavatory by maintenance men at 8 o'clock...
...falling walls of Europe's cities. And Joyce had died in the midst of this downfall-perhaps because of it. There was something about his death that suggested the great Bishop of Hippo, St. Augustine, dying at the close of the Roman world to the echo of Vandal swords against the city gates...
...clock yesterday when the library opened officially, the white faces of every book on the shelves stared down on the librarians. No one had tampered with the windows, but the slashes on the door indicated the vandal's means of entrance...
...latest call, the vandal turned the portrait of ex-President Lowell upside down and switched several volumes about on the shelves. Following the incident, the library staff announced that a thorough check-up of the books would be made to see if any were missing. In addition, a new, "foolproof" lock will be installed on the library door...