Word: arsenicals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PUZZLE IN POISON - Anthony Berkeley-Crime Club ($2). Arsenic poisoning of a retired English engineer, solved by one of his friends. Style: deft; characterization: good; ending: clever...
Assassinated. Dr. Herman Chanen Liu U. S.-educated president of U. S.-endowed Shanghai University; by unidentified gunmen; in the streets of Shanghai. Although he received many a threatening note, a basket filled with arsenic-sprayed fruit, Dr. Liu had continued to side with his fellow-Chinese and against Japan, ignored friends' advice that he quit Shanghai...
...well to divert their critical energies to the state and federal governments. Upon these, who are really the guilty parties in a never-ending crime, much spleen may well be vented, in the hope that eventually, the diet of Americans may not consist of a balanced intake of arsenic and other assorted poisons...
Vegetables and fruits formerly were not a common source of illness. Over-ripe fruit or uncooked fruit and raw vegetables that has been improperly cleansed occasionally cause trouble. Recently the extensive use of arsenic sprays of apples, peas, green beans, spinach, cabbage and lettuce has resulted in wide-spread outbreaks of acute gastro-intestinal irritation...
Cider has been a prominent source of acute upsets, due to arsenic residues. Arsenic produces almost exactly the same symptoms as decomposed protein...