Word: arsenicated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...17th Century was a favorite cosmetic for women. It was a colorless, tasteless liquid, kept on women's dressing tables. After some 600 affectionate husbands of gaddy wives had died with terrible stomach gripes, authorities discovered that the Manna of St. Nicholas di Bari was a preparation of arsenic sold to impatient wives by the Tiffana. She was executed...
Several years ago doctors paid attention to wall paper because they found that most of their patients poisoned by arsenic had inhaled it as dust from their green-tinted wall paper. Wallpaper makers ceased using arsenical dyes for their designs...
...their nests. Cockroaches for a long time were thought by so able a scientist as Dr. Johannes Fibiger, rector of the University of Copenhagen, to be a cause of cancer (TIME, Nov. 8). Also, Paris green, once popular for killing cockroaches, bed bugs and like triflers, is made of arsenic...
...denatured alcohol containing poison is labeled poison. The bootlegger who takes that label off and substitutes his fake label is as guilty of murder as the man who would sell arsenic as sugar...
...Washington, the Apple Growers' Union announced the introduction of a contrivance with horizontal revolving rollers and 500 flapping pieces of canvas, to wipe apples. Importance: to allay the impression that poisoning results from arsenic residue left on apples after spraying...