Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...similar murder took place but a short while past near Niagara Falls and struck horror in the breasts of everyone sensitive enough to experience the shock of useless death. The circumstances of the present outrage are such as to awaken even more intense sympathy. The facts that the victim was accompanied by his family, was a full fifteen miles from the border, and possessed not a trace of alcohol in the car, all combine to awaken popular recognition of an affair, the barest facts of which are hideous...
...intimated in Minneapolis in April, before the awards were announced, that his Committee had voted the novel prize to John Rathbone Oliver's Victim and Victor. The advisory board, whose decision is final, had gone over this vote in selecting Scarlet Sister Mary. No criticism came from Dr. Burton of the decision...
...however, does not even remotely imply the abolishment of capital punishment in China. It is merely the long, bright, classic sword of the headsman that has been abolished-an antiquated relic deemed unworthy of modern, mechanistic Nationalist China. A Chinese execution is always something of a local holiday. The victim is allowed to drink his fill of rice wine until blissfully intoxicated. At the execution grounds, he kneels down, head thrust forward. Under the old regime it was the executioner's duty to take a two-handed, heavy-bladed sword, and from a comfortable stance remove the prisoner...
...excitement of the prize announcements, no reference was made to John Rathbone Oliver, author of Victor and Victim, erroneously announced last month as winner of the Pulitzer novel prize (TIME, April...
...more lurid fairy tales one reads of ogres chopping off legs and arms to make the body fit a pallet. In circles of Dante's Inferno, and in histories of the Spanish Inquisition, are the rack, the wheel, ingenious machines of torture. In Pick Up the Pieces a victim reports the filthy straitjacket, instrument of torture in a modern, real-life insane asylum. North 3-1,-that was the number of his ward in the last institution he attended- is now a successful publicity director, but he was once a drunkard suffering from delirium tremens with all its accoutrement...