Word: poison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found lusty young San Francisco and its men exactly to her taste. She cut loose from her brother, lived around in various hotels, speculated with an inheritance, made money for a while, ended up broke in 1880. Being also unhappy in love, she tried to kill herself by drinking poison. When she met rich U. S. Senator William Sharon, "King of the Comstock Lode," she was glad she had failed. He owned two of San Francisco's hotels, the Grand and the Palace, and shortly installed Sarah Althea in the Grand while he stayed at the Palace. There...
...after long illness." It was said that she always insisted on tasting the Dictator's food before letting him touch it, and ever since her passing, which affected Stalin so deeply that he had her buried in consecrated ground, any death in the Kremlin has set tongues wagging "Poison...
Jailed for failing to meet judgment in a minor civil suit, Harrison Parker continued to hound his huge adversary. From his cell in Cook County Jail he accused the Tribune of trying to poison him with an arsenical birthday cake, raised such a row that Weymouth Kirkland of the Tribune's high-powered law firm of Kirkland, Fleming, Green, Martin & Ellis...
Adequate proof of the proverb that "One man's meat is another man's poison," if nothing else, has emerged from the guerrilla struggle between the Harvard Maintenance and the United States Post Office Departments which has been raging in the basement of University Hall to such an extent that Martial Law has been declared in the University News Office...
...didn't think the benefits of tutoring quite worth the price. Such skeptics will feel better on learning that the tutors themselves believe in them as satisfactory methods of raising that grade, even if they do get the service at cost. When the patent medicine man drinks his own poison, that's news...