Word: victims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Luther thereupon throws a fit. Somebody else knocks down the boy playing brother Ben. The Gordons' Communist furnace man goes around shouting questionable blank verse and has the opportunity to throw a wine glass at a radio during an Armistice Day program. In addition to the sleeping sickness victim there is still another very juicy part, that of an eccentric family friend who totters about muttering significant irrelevancies. He supplies most of the "Chekhovian quality...
...taking care of the tuberculous. They can care for 95,198 patients at one time, but average only about 82,000 patients daily. Cost of running those hospitals amounts to $70,000,000 a year. This represents about $850 a year or less than $2.50 a day for each victim of tuberculosis who goes to a hospital or sanatorium. Only 15% of the 82,000 pay their way in full or in part...
...victim of his voice recordings was shoved before the microphone yesterday without being given a chance to read over the script. He got through the part about Acsop's mouse all right, but when he came to the statement that he was to chat informally for a full minute, he lost all control, and a particularly violent and surprised oath escaped...
After the most frantic sleuthing on the part of the victim whose mail was so grossly polluted, the identity of the crude practical joker was brought to light. There will be some sort of retaliation; of that there is no doubt, but the inmates of the entry shudder to think in what form it will appear...
This was not a criminal to be dealt with. This was not a case for the house of correction. Here was an upright and respected student who was the victim of an unfortunate accident, written up in Boston's scandal mongering, anti-Harvard, publicity minded papers and dealt with in a most twisted and warped fashion. To a casual reader, it would appear that here was a modern Dillinger and not an unfortunate victim of circumstances...