Word: victims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince George, as his car sped through London, was victim of a vicious skid, overturned. Nonchalant, His Royal Highness crawled from the wreck, straightened up, lit a cigaret, hailed a taxi...
...remarkable tour de force, that particular example of what Mr. Benchley terms "unconscious exhibitionism". The weather was bitter cold and without that blithe victim of "divine afflatus" the period between halves would have seemed an unnecessary purgatory. But few there were who dreamed that the young man's romp would go down in history--as it has gone down in the Bookman. It was one of those inspired moments; the antique-hatted and cooncoated young gentleman might have expected notices from sports writers and columnists--but a real flesh and blood theatrical reviewer must have been beyond his wildest dreams...
...quality the Granta does possess which is foreign to its American proto-types, and that is the ability to ridicule without becoming bitter. Concerning its immediate victim, these United States, the magazine is gently cynical; but it never becomes heated and it seems always to remember that its "message" should remain subordinate to its primary function--humor...
...concentration of one part in ten million will probably incapacitate a man within a minute from the pain and distress, and nausea and vomiting accompanying an exposure of from two to three minutes of this concentration. . . . These substances are generally used to cause such sensory irritation that the victim is unable to tolerate a respirator." Airplanes capable of transporting and disseminating diphenyl-chloroarsine (or worse) can be built cheaply, quickly, and in overwhelming numbers. Zut! There goes your civil population...
...Lallers, famed dressmaking establishment; that Lady Furber has had dealings with Lallers in a manner to make her husband acutely covetous of the option; that Mr. Sutherland has been abducted in the hope he will listen to his host's chequebook; that Miss Perkins is an innocent victim of circumstances. A garbled press dispatch is printed in London and meets the eye of Lady Furber. Lady Furber, being a woman of some decision, reaches Monte Carlo almost immediately, boards the yacht, and rings down the curtain a very few pages later...