Word: poison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chattering with the many flowers about her. Some say the flowers are her children and, every time one kneels to kiss her, new flowers come up. But no one really knows. Yet it is quite possible, for there are many different flowers there: Roses, Honeysuckles, Water Lilies; yes, and poison Ivy--perhaps for the tyrant Dionysius--and a catcus plant...
First Negro constable of St. Louis was Charles H. Turpin, a taffy-colored Republican ward heeler. Son of an amiable colored saloonkeeper named Tom ("Millions") Turpin, he too opened barrooms in St. Louis' black belt with Brother Tom Jr. Three years he spent in California selling a mouse poison of his own invention. Back in St. Louis he was elected constable, and next turned his hand to running a cinemansion, the Booker T. Washington, the present site of St. Louis' massive Municipal Auditorium. Showman Turpin prospered, built the gaudy Jazzland dance hall where brother Tom thumped the piano...
...little triumph-if it creates over-optimism-may do harm." So hard had the Whites been stung northeast of Madrid, though they were getting an offensive under way from the south, that General Miaja doubtless feared the enemy would in exasperation use poison gas for the first time in Spain's present war. The White's blatant "Radio General" Queipo de Llano ominously broadcast that White Generalissimo Franco "has enormous supplies of gas, but will not use it, unless Madrid uses it first." In Moscow jubilant Izvestia cartooned an Italian general squealing from Spain to Mussolini for help...
Mustard was far & away the most important vesicant in the European arena. In 1918, however, the U. S. was manufacturing a powerful blister-liquid called Lewisite, none of which reached the front. Because of its arsenic content, Lewisite may poison the blisters it produces. Author Prentiss declares that 30 drops of Lewisite splashed on a man's skin would be fatal. It is more volatile and less persistent than mustard gas, however, and if no arsenic poison sets in, its wounds heal more quickly. Author Prentiss believes that under favorable" conditions Lewisite would prove superior to mustard. British experts...
...took drugs on the sly to keep going. Soon Finchatton began to lose his nerve. When he found a dog beaten to death by the side of the road, when his friend the vicar made a murderous attack on his own wife because he thought she was trying to poison him, Finchatton made up his mind to go away before his sanity cracked...