The Victoria Cross
Suspense · November 2, 1950 · 29 min · 4,241 words
The transcript of “The Victoria Cross”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast November 2, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Suspense plays Suspense free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Or a light and its 96,000 dealers present I for the light bring you the Victoria Cross suspense play starring mr. Herbert Marshall Nurse Now now Captain you'll wake all the patients. What is it? How's dreamy again? Please take outside it?
Please give me. I'm sorry Captain the doctor said no more. I got you. I want to sleep without dreams It'll make me sleep, make me forget. I'm sorry, but it won't help. The doctor doesn't want you to take any more.
Those are his orders. Orders? What is it to him? He doesn't know. You're going to take that schoolmaster position you told me about. You'll have to get well. No, I want it. You've been taking that medicine too long now, Captain.
It's better this way. Just be strong for a while. It'll be better. Son, I wish I was strong enough to wipe that professional kindness from your face. I'd like to kill you. I'd like to kill you.
In just a moment, Mr. Herbert Marshall, in the first act of the Victoria Cross. What's that, Wilcox? A desert red? That, my dear Senator, is an ordinary battery dying of thirst. Come, come, Wilcox. Come is the word, Senator.
Everyone comes to the auto-light. Stay full battery. The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. Why, an auto-light, stay full battery is so cautious of water, it makes a camel look like a double deck water tank.
That's fully all, Wilco. That's factual, Senator, because the auto-light stay-full has over three times the liquid protection of batteries without stay-full features. Water, water everywhere. And furthermore, Senator, the auto-light stay-full battery has fiberglass retaining mats protecting every positive plate for longer life.
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