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While Papa nursed hopes of eventually sharing in Lacoste's inheritance, Euphemie had to endure her husband's passes at the maids and, worse still, the touch of his festering body. The consequence was arsenic in the soup. It remains open to question whether Euphemie put it there (she was acquitted) because Lacoste often dosed himself with the arsenical compounds then prescribed for venereal disease. Still, Lacoste's death smacks sufficiently of retributive justice to meet the criteria for classic murder...
...talking about stockholders, profits and the bottom line? That's Buffett's influence." Israel is said to have resented the Nebraskan's growing influence with Graham. Both Graham and Israel refuse to discuss his departure. Said Graham last week: "If people say I murder and use arsenic I still won't comment...
Horowitz compared the Legionnaires' hair to the hair of victims of lead, mercury, and arsenic poisoning. He concluded the victims were poisoned by none of these substances...
Kellogg, Idaho, and El Paso. (Children are metabolically more susceptible to lead poisoning than adults.) Elevated lead levels can also be found in people who live near freeways, where auto exhausts pollute the air. High arsenic levels have been detected in children living near a copper smelter in Ruston, Wash. High levels of lead and other heavy metals, such as arsenic and mercury, are potentially lethal. Mercury poisoning, caused by industrial dumping of toxic compounds into a harbor, killed an estimated 300 people in the area around Minamata, Japan, and crippled almost 1,000 more...
...hear about me playing a Victorian maiden," acknowledged six-time Wife Zsa Zsa Gabor, sixtyish. Far funnier to watch. Co-starring with Sister Eva, two years younger, Zsa Zsa opened last week at Chicago's Arlington Park Theater in a five-week revival of the classic farce Arsenic and Old Lace. "It's going to make theatrical history," announced Eva. The original script has been changed. The two old Brooklyn ladies who mercy-kill homeless tramps have been given a recent European ancestry to explain why Eva and Zsa Zsa romp round like two cocottes from the court...