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Reading this "practical anthology of scathing remarks" is somewhat like sampling a vial of concentrated formic acid: only professional scorpions or the very insensitive will care for more than small sips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Win Enemies | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...your pen doesn't work, I have a supply of living fountain points that have a faculty of injecting formic acid which has a soothing property. I offer you 8,000,000 ants to distribute in troublemaking pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...found the milk drippings, scurried back to the ant hill with the tidings. When Mrs. Patrick returned from the tomato patch, the crib, the coverlet, Harold's head were a rusty-red quiver. The baby was unconscious. Doctors thought that he might recover from the ant-bite poison (formic acid). But the red ants, like the all-devouring soldier ants which terrorize tropical Asia, had nipped the sight from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ants Over Child | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

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