Word: victims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usually uninteresting and impersonal, and of late they have been losing popularity and influence. The "average man" has found himself the fortunate possessor of inhibitions and high-blood pressure. The "man in the street" has become a Ford owner. The "dangerous criminal" has become a Chicagoan or a victim of temporary insanity. In every class the generality has given way to the particular in point of interest except in the case of the "college student...
...Never Learn. The life of a lawyer is hard, particularly when he commits murder and is called upon to defend the victim inaccurately accused of the same homicide. This lawyer had murdered a lover of his own mistress. The whole matter was naturally distressing to his wife and little ones at home. Likewise to the audience, which was not amused...
...choice. If scholastic dignity should forbid the playing of cards, chess, checkers, or any of the lighter diversions of mankind, and there is nothing for it but to read the bluebooks as they are handed in, let them read in silence; let open mirth be restrained until the last victim has been led from the scene, and then let the rafters resound with Jovian laughter over the mistakes of mortals...
...queen of the quarter. One day the mother tells Louise that her father is gravely ill as the result of his daughters conduct, and humbly asks Julien to allow Louise to nurse her father for a few days. Julien consents. At home again, Louise learns that she was the victim of a ruse to separate her from her lover. She chafes at confinement until her father, beside, himself in the rage and disappointment, turns Louise out of his house, cursing all Paris for depriving him of his daughter...
...first-year players have won both of their games this year. Tilton Academy was their first victim, and last Saturday they defeated the Andover hoopmen by a score of 30 to 18. HARVARD TRINITY Wenner, r.f. l.g., Jones Slocum, l.f. r.g., Hallstron Green, c. c.,Mastronarde Barbee, r.g. l.f., Burr Hatch, l.g. r.f., Tante