Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exulted in France this week for the Highest Tribunal, after hearing in one day three mistresses try to prove themselves admirable, handed down the blanket decision that henceforth any woman upon the sudden death by accident of her man shall "have right to damages only if united to the victim by the legal bonds of matrimony...
...Angeles last week had a perforated brain almost as bizarre as Berkeley's. Someone drove a knife into the head of one Frank Hill, Negro, and broke off the handle (see cut). The victim's skull was so thick that the surgeons could not pull out the blade without wriggling it, and wriggling would tear his brain irreparably. The surgeons therefore sawed the man's skull around the blade, lifted bone and blade together, expected uneventful recovery...
Lung Injurants are gases which cause pulmonary edema, which means that water pours into the lungs, suffocating or "drowning" the victim. Chlorine is a lung injurant. Phosgene (carbonyl chloride) is a much better one, not so irritating at first but ten times more toxic. This gas was first used by the Germans late in 1915 and then adopted by the Allies, while the Germans switched to diphosgene which is less stable than its chemical brother but easier to fill into shells. The phosgenes accounted for 80% of the War's fatal gas casualties. Nevertheless, it had a tell-tale...
Italian opponents are lucky for Don Diablo. His most important victim before Venturi was Carlo Orlandi, onetime champion of Europe. When they met in 1935, Orlandi won the first seven rounds and Manager Burston begged his man to get busy. Said Devil Montanez: "This fight isn't over yet. They'll pick him up off the floor. . . ." In the eighth round, Orlandi picked himself off the floor three times, in the ninth four times, in the tenth twice. The next time he went down, his seconds carried him out. When the fight was over, Orlandi spent four months...
Major event on the schedule of the Amateur Athletic Union's indoor track & field championships last week was the 1,500-metre run, with Glenn Cunningham, 1936 Olympic runner-up and Luigi Beccali. 1932 Olympic champion, heading a crack field. A mysterious ailment, described by its victim as "like tonsillitis except that I haven't any tonsils." kept Cunningham on the sidelines. His Kansas confrere, Archie San Romani, music student at Kansas State Teachers College, won the race from Beccali by a foot, with Pennsylvania's Gene Venzke third...