Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...event, the reformer said, "A bloody ending to a bloody life." While he was not alone in his campaigns, few associates went all the way with him. Most of his contemporaries in fact, detested him. "The spirit that lighted the fires of the Inquisition," wrote Ezra Heywood, eccentric socialist, victim of Comstock's fury. He was called "an incorporated conscience," "an ogre to innocent girls." George Bernard Shaw said: "Comstockery is the world's standing joke at the expense of the United States." He must, though, have had some friends, for he notes, "For Christmas I received...
...doctors said that he was suffering from Landry's paralysis, which generally kills the victim in two to 14 days. Still there was faint hope for their Albert. In 1898, at Minneapolis, a Swedish house servant had lived for 41 days under artificial respiration. And at New Haven, a year ago, one Mrs. Mary Baker, with lungs, paralyzed for 75 hours, had recovered...
...road it was known as Coal Oil Jenny. Though occasionally it spurts a hopeful wisecrack, the full gusher of real drama is not forthcoming, wherefore it will probably not strike money from Broadway. The hero, played by the author, Frank Craven, masters gullible wealthy women for profit. One victim is a Pennsylvania factory girl, come to Manhattan to spend her $6,000 for a furtive smack of city life. The exploiter of women, duped by her reckless display, rushes into matrimony only to find he has caught a liability instead of an asset. And here...
...appear momentarily ridiculous as Philadelphia Director of Public Safety (TIME, Jan. 4, 1926). He resigned from the marines to continue as "Philadelphia Dry Tsar," and at the same time Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick of Philadelphia dismissed him. The War Department recognized that General Butler had been the victim of Philadelphia politics and allowed him to withdraw his resignation. His assignment to China is prudent, well-advised, a happy choice...
Sued for Divorce. By Adele Rosenwald Deutsch, daughter of Julius Rosenwald, Chairman of the Board of Sears, Roebuck & Co. (mail order); Armand Deutsch, in Paris. In 1924 their son, Armand Jr., was said to have been on the list of names from which Loeb & Leopold selected their victim...