Word: victims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Embarrassing situation number 9863," summed up the victim of this tale...
...Chicago last week, on trial for his life, Lumberjack Seadlund gave a fascinated jury the details of the whole extraordinary story. He and Gray had taken Ross first to a wooden dugout near Emily, Wis., where they kept their aged victim manacled for 13 chill autumn days, then to Spooner. By this time, the jurors gathered from the defendant's story, the affair had taken on the atmosphere of a camping trip in which his principal concern had been the comfort and convenience of the captive. Trouble between Seadlund and his less considerate accomplice apparently developed on this score...
...armed with a spear, he harpoons a mullet, merou, moray, ray, octopus, none of which is so suspicious of man underwater as of man out. Besides being better exercise than most fishing, goggle fishing has one further sporting advantage: It exposes the fisherman to some risk of being the victim as well as victor in the game. On one occasion, when a large octopus wrapped itself around Fisherman Gilpatric, he had a few bad moments cutting himself loose...
...typical polio-encephalitis victim had blinding, excruciating headaches, accompanied by nausea and vomiting so severe that artificial feeding was sometimes necessary. About ten patients suffered bladder paralysis, necessitating the constant and painful use of catheters. Two developed arthritis. Many women had sharp abdominal pains, due to attacks by the germ on the ovaries. Such a diseased ovary, when exposed for surgical treatment, looked "like a sac of pale blue cellophane stuffed with tapioca pudding." The ovaries of a few patients were entirely destroyed and typical menopause symptoms followed. Endocrine disturbances snowed themselves in increased obesity and growth of body hair...
...week, Miss Gurie and her husband, a small businessman named Thomas Stewart, were in the Los Angeles divorce court, and a few perfunctory questions brought out that she was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. Said Mr. Goldwyn: "The greatest hoax in box-office history ... I am a very happy victim...