Word: arsenicated
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...Arsenic and Old Lace. Frank Capra directs. Starring Gregory Peck, Peter Lorry and someone who looks like Boris Karloff. About a family of crazies--the aunts kill lonely old men for charity, the convict escapee nephew kills for profit, the son thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt. And they all run around in a chaotic mess of slamming doors and confused criminality. Brattle Theatre...
...cruxle weightlifter through his involvement with a mute waif and a wise clown. It is me peccably acted by the three stars Anthony Quinn. Giulietta Massina and Richard Basehart. The times are 5.35 and 9.35. Fellini is unfortunately paired with Frank Capra's predicable filming of a cornball play Arsenic and Old Lace screened at 7:30 with weekend matinee...
...true. There have been scattered incidents in the U.S. of severe skin rashes and even poisoning from powder containing dangerous ingredients. Last year doctors warned that a high asbestos content in talc could lead to lung cancer. French medical authorities in the 1950s blamed a talc accidentally laced with arsenic for killing 69 infants. Last week the French government indicted a talcum powder for the recent deaths of 28 babies. The suspected ingredient: hexachlorophene, an antibacterial agent that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has found to cause neurological damage in laboratory animals...
...burning sensation in his hands. Lilly loyally visited the bedside, but a doctor involved in the earlier cases happened to spot her. She was dissuaded from further visits, and her employer recovered. Again police could find no evidence to prove that Lilly had ever bought or administered arsenic, so they brought no charges. Says a police lieutenant who investigated Lilly: "All we had was hearsay and circumstantial evidence...
With the law apparently helpless, Dr. Lever Stewart and three colleagues decided to write up the case in the Virginia Medical Monthly, to warn other physicians in the area to be on the lookout for arsenic poisoning. "She's a grade-A psychopath," says Dr. Stewart. Passing the lie detector test was no problem for her, "because to her it would mean nothing...