Word: arsenicals
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...before the McCarthy campaign: "I thought I could make some contribution, but it is very disappointing to have the business-as-usual people tak ing over." McCarthy's celebrity corner is largely in despair. Actor Walter Matthau calls the Humphrey-Nixon face-off "a choice between strychnine and arsenic." Paul Newman, one of McCarthy's busiest advocates at the convention, promises "a month of serious drinking" before he decides whether to support Humphrey actively, though he has already decided at least to cast his ballot for him. Only Steve Allen among McCarthy's Hollywood supporters has thus...
CUSTER PARK, S. DAK., Black Hills Playhouse. Two old ladies from Brooklyn seduce men with wine and kill them with kindness in Arsenic and Old Lace...
...disorders of the blood"). There was also an elixir "guaranteed to destroy all desire for liquor" and a magical tonic called "Peruvian wine of cocoa" that was recommended "if you wish to accomplish double the amount of work or have to undergo an unusual amount of hardship." Arsenic wafers were offered to tone up the complexion, and an "electric ring for rheumatism" (85?; goldplated...
...displayed a grisly relish and inventiveness. In Bahia state, the government claims, white men purposely killed off two tribes of Pataxó Indians ten years ago with inoculations of smallpox virus in order to get their land. In Mato Grosso five years ago, a gift of sugar laced with arsenic wiped out the Tapaiuna Indians. Another Mato Grosso tribe was first shot up by a band of gunmen, then bombed from the air by dynamite sticks tossed from a low-flying Cessna. In Parana, where land prices are particularly high, the Guarani tribe has fallen from 5,000 members...
...hostel. The canvassers exchange stories of their day's experiences in much the same way that kids travelling in Europe trade hitch hiking stories. There's always a man who was drunk when the canvasser called, or a quiet, elderly women who looked like she was straight out of "Arsenic and Old lace...