Word: arsenicals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arsenic and Old Lace; or Murder Made Sidesplitting (TIME...
...batches were ready for shipment to Europe when the Armistice was signed. None saw combat, but lewisite had earned a sinister name-Dew of Death-because a few drops on a man's skin were sufficient to kill. Heavier and more persistent than mustard gas, lewisite is an arsenic compound which smells like geraniums, bears the scientific name of beta-chlorvinyldichlorarsine. While mustard causes many casualties but few deaths, lewisite was expected to cause a greater proportion of deaths...
...thwacking success in one serious role: the pathologically possessive mother in Sidney Howard's The Silver Cord. When sound came to the cinema she went to Hollywood, was flibberti-gibbety Aunt Pittypat in Gone With the Wind. As one of the solicitous old poisoners in Arsenic and Old Lace she played her last part; she was the fourth famed character actress to die in five weeks (the others: Dame Marie Tempest, May Robson, Edna May Oliver...
...bottles of the elderberry arsonic brew, left over from last fall's party for the cast of "Arsenic and Old Lace," will be available in the library for the various and sundry editors of Mother Advocate's rivals...
This week versatile, 53-year-old Howard Lindsay and puckish, 49-year-old Russel McKinley ("Buck") Crouse had three gold mines on Broadway: Strip for Action (which they wrote), Life With Father (which they adapted), Arsenic and Old Lace (which they produced). They had behind them three musicomedy successes (Anything Goes, Red, Hot and Blue, Hooray for What!). With no failures in six tries, they represent as big a money team as Broadway can boast...