Word: arsenicated
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Blithe Spirit is almost as much of a repertory item as Arsenic and Old Lace, so nothing need be said about it. This production is no better, but certainly no worse than any amateur effort is liable to be. The scenery is unobtrusive, and although the lighting is the same for night and day, the general stage impression is a pleasant...
...smoker who wants to reform, says Dr. Johnston, should be frightened by threats of lung cancer. He must understand that "tobacco smoke contains various poisons, notably nicotine, pyridine bases, carbon monoxide and arsenic...
Best Plays (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Arsenic and Old Lace, with Boris Karloff, Donald Cook...
...relationship that has since fascinated the literary world. Hardly a decade has passed without fresh information (mostly in the form of letters), with the result that the Carlyles have begun to look like a pair of corpses which are constantly being re-exhumed to see which one had the arsenic. The virtue of this new disinterment by Lawrence & Elisabeth Hanson (who did a similar post-mortem on The Four Brontës) is that it is thorough; no one will have much excuse for doing it again...
...government's expert on the London water works; he invented a slide rule, a pocket chessboard, and worked on a computing machine. He wrote for the Britannica and other encyclopedias on an imposing range of subjects - Age, Apiaries, Arsenic, Asphyxia, Electricity, Electrodynamics, Galvanism, Phrenology, Solid Geometry, and Syncope. He became a collector of chess problems, dabbled in mnemonics, astronomy, entomology, geography, and geology. In his spare time he also took up botany, and it was botany that led him to compile the Thesaurus...