Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...truth. But when Haigh's counsel, in an effort to prove him insane, finally read his astonishing confession in court last week-Haigh said that he drank a glass of his victim's blood after each murder-the press was finally free to let the blood and acid...
...Some Human Substance." Near an old factory in Crawley, detectives soon found some interesting evidence: a piece of red plastic like that on a handbag which the missing widow carried, a ten-gallon carboy, one of several used to store sulphuric acid, and ashlike specimens of what a Home Office pathologist called "the residue of some human substance." Haigh was promptly taken into custody...
...glass of blood which I drank." In 1944 William McSwan had been disposed of in much the same way-"I hit him on the head," dictated Haigh. "I withdrew a quantity of blood and drank it. I put him in a 40-gallon tank and disposed of him with acid...
...sedate Georgian library were the rowdy etchings of James Gillray; he and his bibulous contemporary Thomas Rowlandson had fathered English cartooning. Working above Mistress Humphrey's print shop in Piccadilly where his etchings sold for 18 pence, Gillray had scorched the court of George III with his acid portrayals of spendthrift profligates and pompous politicians. Rowlandson's needle-sharp stylus had deflated many a Regency swell and belle...
...assassination, Sheean stood in the garden, saw Gandhi come across the grass toward the summer house, saw him climb the steps, and heard "four small, dull, dark explosions." Sheean nearly fainted, fell against the garden wall, and after some minutes realized that his eyes were scalding with tears-"more acid than I had known"-and that blisters had suddenly appeared on the third and fourth fingers of his right hand. "How could such things be?" he asked himself...