Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia last Decoration Day, 400 American Legionaries, their wives and children held a grand picnic. Twenty of the women pitched in to serve luncheon. Of the picnickers 66 contracted typhoid fever. Last week the fifth victim died. And last week examination by Philadelphia Health Department bacteriologists of the stools of the 20 women who had served so helpfully at the picnic demonstrated that two of them were carriers of typhoid fever. Because they were not among Philadelphia's 30 labeled carriers and did not endanger the lives of relatives and friends out of wanton carelessness, names of the tainted...
...experience of the orthopedic surgeon, no victim of poliomyelitis should ever become a derelict; to him even the greatly disabled and deformed paralytic may be much improved and brought back to a high percentage of bodily, of social, of economic efficiency; moreover he knows of no reasonable age or duration since the attack in which means of ameliorating the condition of the cripple cannot be used to the victim's advantage. The writer, because he finds even in the medical profession very inadequate understanding of the possibilities and the methods of attaining these results, endeavors to point...
Just why a gang should pick the youngest of a poor widow's eight children as a likely extortion victim, Lois Thompson could not explain. Neither could anyone else. Daniel Shaw politely denied the whole story, said he hardly knew the girl. But as defense attorneys pointed out, he had admittedly sojourned in San Francisco "which is the headquarters of the white slave business" and in Illinois "where John Dillinger and his gang had their hideouts." Anyway, concluded one attorney, he was probably a Japanese...
...dinner of nose & throat specialists. One of the rhinolaryngologists brought up the question of the serious hardship that some of his patients underwent because of the persistence of onion and garlic odor on their breath. Try as hard as they might to avoid these alliaceous vegetables, they occasionally fell victim to them camouflaged in soup or salad. Then for a time their lives, and the lives of their associates, were miserable...
Engaged. George Vanderbilt, 20, co-heir to the $30,000,000 estate left by his father, the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Lusitania victim; and Lucille Parsons, West Orange, N. J. socialite. From an African trip last spring Heir Vanderbilt brought back 5,000 snakes, 15,000 bugs, 10,000 birds, 15,000 ft. of cinema...