Word: arsenicated
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Ever since January, the Paris police have felt sure that mousy Dr. Jean Duflos is an unimaginative, old-fashioned poisoner and that he killed his wife with arsenic. They arrested him on the way to her funeral, but for a clear cut case, they needed to know exactly when the poison was given-the one thing their toxicologists couldn't tell them. The body, which tries hard to protect itself from arsenic, stores it away in the skin, fingernails and hair. But even after examining hundreds of samples of such clues, toxicologists can seldom do more than report approximately...
Died. "General" Jacob Sechler Coxey, 97, eccentric businessman, sportsman and monetary theorist, whose stone quarries, racing stable, patent medicine, arsenic mines, ill-starred stabs at politics were all but eclipsed by the 1894 depression march on Washington of his "Commonweal of Christ" (known to posterity as "Coxey's Army"); after a stroke; in Massillon, Ohio. On Easter Sunday, 1894, seated in a phaeton drawn by his $40,000 thoroughbred pacer, well-heeled Employer Coxey and his unemployed tatterdemalions set out for the capital to pressure Congress into accepting his economic cureall: interest-free local bond issues for public works...
...miles from New York City might be as high as 384,000 tons a year. And what disturbed New Yorkers most of all was a new test which showed they sucked in about 185,000 particles of dirt at every breath, including large draughts of such unpleasant byproducts as arsenic, carbon monoxide and chlorine from the city's spewing factory chimneys...
Four Twelves Are 48 (by Joseph Kesselring; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers in association with Julius Fleischmann) was the first play of Kesselring's to reach Broadway since Arsenic and Old Lace in 1941. It was also very nearly the worst play to reach Broadway since that time. It dealt with a family whose females, one after another, became unmarried mothers at twelve. Almost certainly anyone with the ability to handle such a subject would lack the desire. Playwright Kesselring handled it so crudely that, before the show closed after two performances, he had audiences wincing and yawning...
...adapters of Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize comedy have blessedly resisted the temptation to coax Harvey into full view.* Up to a point, they have even managed to recapture some of the Broadway production's daffy charm and prankish fun, and they have kept all of Josephine (Arsenic and Old Lace) Hull as its fluttery leading lady...