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...Julius Streicher, onetime Führer of Franconia and publisher of the pornographically anti-Semitic Stunner, who had contributed as much as any one individual to the torment of European Jewry. Jailed, he maintained that he had tried only to get the Jews out of Germany and into Palestine. But, gazing at his jailers, he would scream in the next breath: "Jews, Jews, Jews-Since I was taken all I have seen is Jews...
...Radio, a husband slaps his wife, tells her he has discovered her infidelities, and that he can hit her "as much as I want to, because, Baby, you're stuck." ("Uh-huh," she says, "I'm stuck.") In The King of the Desert, two wise cracking pansies torment a stolid football player in a Hollywood bar until he knocks one of them out ("We'll fix you in Holly wood, Mister...
...Beast at Bay. The clearing of Manila Bay would open a great supply base for MacArthur's operations. But while the fighting continued, Manila was a city in torment...
Victoria never knew why she began to torment her guests by emphasizing their stupidities. Niles did not know why he suddenly began a love affair with his cousin. Victoria did not know why she began a loveless affair with a doctor. Their neighbors, who watched the Grandolets growing richer, and Victoria becoming the cool, aloof mother of the Grandolet heir, did not know that the household was anything but successful. Victoria did not know, when the years of deception finally ended, why she looked at the columns of the mansion in the moonlight, turned her clearsighted ruthlessness against herself, began...
...believe that these beautiful ladies lived in a world of sweetness and leisure. On the contrary, their nerves were strained by 52 weeks of routs, jours, fashionable events of all sorts and by problems of a private nature. Their moods, which hinged on the more or less tolerable torment of the tightly laced corset . . . were feverish, stormy, or even worse...