Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Somewhere, every day last week, Death found a victim...
Andrew Jackson loved cockfighting, horse-racing, apple-toddies; but he worshipped womanhood, honor, democracy; and devoted his life to defending these three. This buckskinned Tennessee pioneer worshipped the epitome of exquisite womanhood in Mrs. Rachel Robards, victim of her husband's jealous bullying. He championed her in her plight, and married her the moment word was received that Robards had divorced her. The actual decree was delayed until long after the blissfully ignorant lovers were married. Village gossips taunted Rachel for "living in sin," and Jackson was quick to defend her honor, and his, in a series of duels...
...eternal love and mortal lust, laying siege to little Lulu Bains, daughter of a deacon. Having seduced her, he is threatened with a wedding. But Elmer Gantry prays to God: "Show me some way out of this marriage, for Christ's sake, Amen." Sneering at his feeble victim, he escapes the nuptials by stamping out of the ministry to become a salesman of plows...
...Maria Vérone, Présidente de la Ligue Francaise pour le Droit des Femmes, intimated that spying on and gossiping about the morals of Senators would be stopped, in each individual case, as soon as the terrorized victim turns feminist...
...Boast. Prince Felix Youssoupov has written autobiographically that he offered Rasputin poisoned wine, after first pretending to take a sip himself. When the Debauchee's potent digestion resisted liquid poison, Rasputin was induced to eat several pastries containing cyanide of potassium. Expectantly the nobles waited for their victim to collapse, and blanched with fear as the Black Monk, who was believed to possess occult powers, became merely hilarious after absorbing enough poison to kill a healthy elephant...