Word: victims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fingering the trap lever instead was Arthur ("Daredevil Dick") Hasch, a pensioned Louisville policeman, deputized by Sheriff Thompson. The Sheriff miserably sat in her automobile 50 yd. away. Assistant Hangman Hanna adjusted the noose. Unlike Rapist De Boe, who was permitted to quarrel for an hour with his victim, Negro Bethea had nothing to say. "Man, he's there!" whispered an admiring spectator. The hot-dog sellers fell quiet...
...after a reign of 35 years. Last week Dr. Minkin offered readers an old-fashioned biographical essay, filled with common-sense analyses and romantic speculations, that was calculated to reduce Herod's crimes to historical perspective, render him less a monster, more the victim of a monstrous set of circumstances. Although the portrait that emerges seems plausible, readers are likely to feel that the value of Herod lies less in the discussions of the central figure than in Dr. Minkin's learned account of the relations between Rome and Judea that raised Herod to power...
...instant an embolus seats itself like a valve in an artery, the victim usually feels an excruciating pain at that point. Simultaneously "the affected extremity becomes paralyzed, cold and pale, the pulses disappear, and in a few hours the skin becomes mottled with a bluish hue. . . . On the fingers and toes, or sometimes over prominent bones . . . dark blisters appear which may open and from which the gangrene spreads...
...roars, howls, screams, snarls. Rudolph Bjork and another keeper seized an iron rod and an elephant hook, began beating and prodding at the maddened beast through the paddock bars. His little eyes bloodred, Wally flourished his trunk at them, went on stamp'ng and gouging his victim. Guards scurried up, stood with rifles cocked to shoot the female elephants if they should stampede. It was too late to do anything for Ed Brown. His body was in four pieces when the keepers finally drove Wally...
Carl P. "Muck" Ray, of All American and Dartmouth football fame is weekending at Stillman Infirmary, a victim to children's deseases. He was overcome with the measles while playing baseball here recently...