Word: arsenic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arsenic and Old Lace is a delightfully funny play. Neither age nor the not-quite-first-rate present production obscures more than a trifle of Mr. Kesselring's mad theatical...
...were safeguards of sorts against physical accidents, but for a workman who spent years absorbing a slow but deadly poison, there was little thought. Dr. Hamilton had heard of men choked by carbon monoxide in the steel mills, of men palsied by white lead poisoning, of others disabled by arsenic and cyanides, of men with the "bends." To Alice Hamilton's socialist conscience, all this was outrageous...
...arsenic used in insecticides, fruit sprays, and occurring naturally in the drinking water of some areas (in Argentina 150 cases of cancer have been attributed to the water supply...
Bilious blue bloods and asthmatic aristocrats have sipped the strong waters of La Bourboule for centuries. The heady brew burbling up from radioactive springs around the French spa is spiced with arsenic and bicarbonate of soda and, so the Bourbouliens say, is good for anemia, rheumatism, diabetes, postprandial bloat, intermittent fevers and a host of other ailments. Sooner or later, shrewd Gallic hôteliers were sure to figure that what is good for man is also good for beasts. One fellow with the soul of a pressagent finally hit on the thought that a swig or two from...
Since mid-May Clare Luce has been in the U.S. undergoing treatments to correct the arsenic-induced infection. Her general health is greatly improved, and she is scheduled to leave this week for a three-week Mediterranean cruise. Then she will return to Villa Taverna (the bedroom and its resetted ceiling have been long since redone in nonleaded paint) and to the embassy duties that she has often described as "no bed of roses...