Word: victimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victim is informed, through the intermediary of the prepositor of the week, that "The headmaster wishes to see him after twelve . . ." He will be met by the school messenger (usually an ex-soldier of the regular army), who leads him up to the ancient, oak-paneled room where stands the famous block...
...school messenger, having loosened the offender's braces and lowered his trousers, causes him to kneel on the block. Two pre-positors then step forward and place their hands on the victim's shoulders. This is called "holding down," and is supposed to prevent the flogged one from rising to defend himself from the headmaster's assault. The school messenger now opens the door of the sixth form room, and the headmaster rustles in in his robes of office. A third prepositor goes to a cupboard, from which he takes the birch rod and ceremoniously hands...
Outside in the School Yard, friends of the victim are waiting eagerly to hear a first-hand account of what occurred . . . For a few days, he will be a hero. The slight pain which the flogging caused will be highly compensated by the interest it has created. The punishment is greatly preferred to copying out lines which take up hours which could be spent at leisure...
...conscientiously for eight years-as an anonymous assistant to Franklin Roosevelt, as Secretary of the Navy, and finally as Secretary of National Defense. His face showed no expression but a kind of habitual pugnacity. In no way did he betray the fact that he had been marked as the victim of one of the biggest headhunts in the history of Washington politics...
Last week Forrestal was still in the Cabinet, Winchell, Pearson, Allen, et al. notwithstanding. He called on the President, and afterwards told waiting reporters, who asked him whether he expected to continue as Secretary of Defense: "Yes, that's right. I will continue to be a victim of the Washington scene...