Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoary tale, but the state law which permits divorce only on grounds of adultery leaves them no alternative. Chief sufferers are referees in divorce proceedings, forced to hear over & over the same old story of raid, surprised husband, pajama-clad blonde. Last week in Manhattan a referee rebelled. His victim was a woman famed in the U. S. and Europe for her different parties, indifferent singing...
Aerial Attack: Britain and France "resolved to invite Italy, Germany and Belgium to ... undertake immediately to give the assistance of their air forces to whichever of them might be the victim of unprovoked aerial aggression by one of the contracting parties...
Asked his opinion of the New Deal, its first victim could only make a wry face and helplessly wave...
...declared that the main mass of a picture could not be blue" he painted the "Blue Boy," perhaps his best-known work. Blake, of course, is the ideal artistic anarchist, "an almost perfect example of the visionary," and Fry does not warm up to him, for "he was the victim, but a very happy victim, of a well-recognized form of mental discase...
...Greek tragedy. Two have to die in Woman in Love. First Tamara's seducer, Mayne Mallory, kills his wife. Then, after he has tried to blackmail Tamara's George, a lawyer, into taking his case through the courts, Mayne gets his own come-uppance when his victim's husband knocks him down, inadvertently killing him. Jail for manslaughter separates George and Tarn for a period, but California Justice appears more kind to Mrs. Norris' hero than to Tom Mooney...