Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemed to be a case of turning out the "ins.''* Voters, resentful of hard times and high taxes, struck against public officials rather than for their opponents. Last week it was Governor La Follette and Senator Elaine who suffered; in November President Hoover, most distinguished "in," may be a victim of the same psychology...
...last week at Manhattan's Paramount Theatre was Night Mayor, patterned after New York's slick James J. ("Jimmy") Walker who resigned last week. It was suppressed, and The Night Club Lady, a murder mystery in which all the suspects have a motive for killing the victim, substituted. Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt (Adolphe Menjou) is a wrestling devotee who constantly demonstrates new holds to his drunken friend Tony (Skeets Gallagher). Learning that Lola Carewe (Mayo Methot), a blackmailing night club hostess, has had her life threatened, he takes Tony and six detectives to her apartment, mounts guard. Sitting...
...There are those in other countries who do not fully comprehend the attitude of Japan toward China nor the measures she has taken. . . . Although Japan has been the chief victim of the abnormal state of affairs in China, other countries have also suffered intolerable indignities. At the same time it is admitted by those conversant with actual conditions in China that no remedy can be effected by having recourse either to the covenant of the League of Nations or to any other organ of what may be termed 'machinery of peace.' In fact, it has been the practice...
...stalk of ragweed within city limits. For one day's pulling Chicago paid 25? and a ticket good for a week's room & board in a charity shelter. Sales of home air filterers perked up. If his sleeping quarters are free from dust, the mildly sensitive hayfever victim will not suffer very much during the hours he must spend in open, unfiltered air. Allergists prepared for the annual autumn peak of their specialized practice...
...theory. Two points are certain about hayfever and the other allergies: 1) certain substances are mildly poisonous to certain people; 2) people react to their personal poisons in specific ways. The irritants may be plant pollens (ragweed, timothy, oak), foods (wheat, milk, eggs, fish), ani maldanders, feathers, dusts. The victim may show his symptoms in his nose and eyes (this is hayfever per se), his skin (hives), brain (migraine), intestines (colitis). Two theories concerning the physiology of allergy have many followers among the specialists. One theory presumes that proteins in pollens, foods, etc. get into the blood and reach...