Word: victimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the 16th victim died. The town began to buzz with ugly rumors. The townspeople began to call it "I'HÔpital de la Mort." Dr. Denis ordered all gynecological patients isolated in private rooms behind locked doors. By mistake, one patient was taken to a ward after her operation. Her death was the 17th...
...many of Mâcon's townspeople, she evidently did. In the public squares, angry crowds cried: "Voilà l'empoison-neuse!" One Paris paper called the case "Atropine and Old Lace" (atropine had been found in the viscera of one victim). But Detective Bascou, finally convinced that Nurse Demussy's ex-husband had lied about her, changed his tack. The detective decided that the solution must be a medical one, and began to study the hospital's post-operative treatment of gynecological patients...
...familiar voice, Vaccaro rolled over, saw Harry Truman grinning from ear to ear. He stared at the awful needle, suddenly realized he was the victim of a practical joke. Then he sighed with relief and got off the quote of the week: "Mr. President, I do not usually greet Presidents of the United States from this position...
With his records, Funt and six assistants get to work editing out the dull talk and splicing together their show. Every two-minute sequence requires 14 hours of blue-penciling, often as many as 100 splices. When an angry victim breaks into profanity, a Funt-inspired device dubs in a sweet feminine voice which whispers, "Censored . . . censored . . . censored...
...Toro, the bewildered victim, is nominally "owned" by a lewd fat man, Vince Vanneman, who fixes every one of his fights on a coast-to-coast tour that Eddie promotes into a triumphal march. Nick, the powerful and deadly racketeer who actually owns El Toro as he owns Eddie, also owns the aging heavyweight champion, Gus Lennert. Gus is soon to retire, after drawing one big purse for getting massacred by the challenger, Buddy Stein, and another for doing a nose dive before El Toro. Nick has all the elements nicely calculated except his wife, Ruby, a ladylike tramp...