Word: victims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purely inferential nature of the testimony. The late Mr. Phillips, he said, was the true rogue. He had made more than $3,000,000 in graft. "I hope that to God he has made a satisfactory reckoning." screamed Lawyer Steuer. The corpulent Mr. Connolly was pictured as the victim of persecution. But shades of the prison house still gathered about the ex-Borough President...
...less pleasant echo of Wartime days came bellowing last week, from that brilliant yet brittle strategist General Erich von Ludendorff, once famed as the "Brains of Hindenburg." Today Ludendorff appears to be the victim of delusions of persecution and a strange religious mania. The too-brilliant, too-brittle brain has seemingly snapped at last...
...Alcock '29, K. D. Robinson '29, and W. T. Storey '30. They have all had some experience either in University or in Freshman competition, but their true worth under high pressure is an unknown quality and the team may suffer materially if either Clark or Rarrett should fall victim to the injury jink which has been an constantly dogging the trial of the Crimson...
...last I have suffered a great deal and Princess Mary has suffered a great deal more. Such photographers have the most tiresome knack of clicking the camera just at a moment when one's mouth is wide open and some unattractive attitude is being struck by their victim. I would like to call that kind of a photographer a damned nuisance...
Porto Rico. The storm's first major victim was Porto Rico, which it left torn and disrupted. The island has a population of 1,400,000. It was estimated that at least half of this number were left homeless. Chaos prevented a complete count of the dead, but early reports from nine towns indicated that 263 were known to have perished. In San Juan, the principal city, 300 chattering consumptives were forced into the open. Seventy lepers, the roofs of their colony blown away, were gingerly herded into an administration building...