Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knoxville, Tenn. last week one woman died of spinal meningitis and an other victim developed the disease. They were the 21st case and 15th death from spinal meningitis there this year. In rural Knox County, outside Knoxville, five cases have been discovered; one died. In other east Tennessee counties doctors have reported several sporadic cases. The situation last week caused Dr. Fray Owen Pearson, Knoxville's young epidemiologist, to cry: "Alarmingly serious. . . . Take care of your bodies and health. . . . Keep your children away from public places and crowds and always away from the funerals of people who have died...
...plugs on a car. When someone steps on the starter a small dynamite cap explodes, which sets fire to a quantity of powder. This burns in a constricted place and gives a high whistling noise like a fire in the gas line. Great quantities of smoke pour out, the victim decides the car is going to blow up and makes his preparation to leave just as the final explosion lets...
Perfumes v. Nightmares. Victims of nightmares are cured by Dr. Valentine Ujhely of Manhattan as follows: Victim wraps his head in thick gauze, stretches out on couch. Phonograph plays soft symphonic music. Dr. Ujhely squirts two-three drops of jasmine or tuberose perfume on the masked face every minute for almost an hour. By & by the patient finds himself daydreaming. A gong softly gongs -signal for the patient to daydream about something else. Gong, gong, gong-reveries change. GONG-the patient deliberately muses about his nightmare, tells it to do its worst, "you're only a dream...
...guillotine takes its deadly toll as The Terror rules Paris. But Citizen Robespierre is annoyed. Victim after victim slips through his fingers and crosses the channel to England, all through the infernal machinations of that "Damned elusive Pimpernel." Into the background of eighteenth century France and England Leslie Howard fits like a package of cigarettes in cleophane. As the uncannily clever schemer disguised as an old hag, as the suave nobleman who courts, death to save his friends, the nobles of the French court, as the fastidious fop who advises the Prince of Wales on the proper jabeau, Howard...
Recently a candidate for a doctorate was squirming under a barrage of mystifying questions. The senior member of the examining committee looked on sympathetically as the sharp, efficient young questioner astutely revealed alarming gaps in the victim's knowledge. The poor candidate simply could not remember whether or not such and such a sixteenth-century writer had a full beard, what he ate for breakfast on a certain morning, whether or not his wife washed his underwear, or, for that matter, whether or not he were underwear...