Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well recognized form of business blackmail. With its last few thousand dollars (or a lawyer on a contingent fee) the small company threatens the big one with a suit for damages because of unfair competition. If a settlement is not forthcoming the racketeer sues for some staggering sum, the victim gets publicity bad for any business, possibly a government investigation...
...announcing the death of his colleague, Georgia's Congressman Crisp observed with some alarm: "It is my honest belief that he was a victim of the strain under which we have been trying to work these last several weeks. . . . Let us reflect and relax some and not kill ourselves...
...Silent Witness (Fox). Situation in a mystery play simply means predicament. The predicament herein set forth is that of an elderly gentleman (Lionel At-will) who tries to save his son from the consequences of murder by confessing to the crime himself. The victim in the case is the son's handsome blonde mistress (Greta Nissen). In court, circumstantial evidence has nearly convicted the father when a new witness appears. This is a mild mannered Cockney whose presence at the scene of the killing no one had suspected. His testimony clears father and son and indicates that the taking...
...tour, and returned with six volumes by Edgar Wallace, which were referred to as "His Majesty's favorite reading." We are not told the immediate sequel, but shortly afterwards the king took up his bed and walked. Yesterday Wallace himself died, the master of literary mass-production and its victim...
While the Canadians' 41 to 29 defeat Saturday night at the hands of Brown, which fell a victim to Harvard three weeks ago, seems to leave little question as to the outcome, the visitors will have in Bourne of McGill a swimmer who should cause a good deal of trouble in several events. After breaking the local records in the 220 and 440 Saturday night, he took the 100 from Lewis, Brown's star sprinter, who was barely edged out in this race by B. S. Wood '33 during the Harvard-Brown meet...