Word: poison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...observed through glass windows by German "professors." Since then, though the French have searched far & wide for the Struthof professors, they have caught only three. Last week in Metz, a French military court heard the Struthof case. Said Dr. Otto Bickenbach, onetime Heidelberg faculty member, accused of giving poison gas to prisoners: "I could have dropped these experiments, but I found myself on the front lines, so to speak, of the war. and I never wanted to drop the experiments...
...more than two years. Finally the priest had to show him the door. Furious, Rolfe claimed he had been cheated, joined the staff of a local magazine and filled its columns with vituperations against the priest. What he couldn't get into the paper he put in poison-pen letters that flooded the community. The paper folded; Rolfe went back to London...
...factory, when analysed by the ministry, proved to be harmless. But the Brittany doctors had spread the word about Baumol far & wide. A village retailer, afraid to sell any more of the stuff, returned a shipment to the manufacturers. A sample was analysed and found to contain a deadly poison, arsenic acid anhydride...
...first two acts-as 14-year-old Mary Tilford exerts her fearful wiles over schoolmates and grandmother and spreads her poison-The Children's Hour has the lure of mounting melodrama. It is with the last act that something at once harsher and more humane begins to blow through the story, and with the very last scene-when the surviving schoolmistress faces an enlightened, remorseful old lady-that the play takes on, emotionally and morally, a sense of the tragic...
...leading the old man on a mountain trail. The old man cries for help, tries to find the dog, and plunges over a cliff to his death on the rocks. A veterinarian who is a thief kills an injured companion with an injection of poison as the man lies in bed. The dog is doped, but attacks a man. Two men kidnap a girl, then beat her." The show, said Mabley grimly, "was written and produced expressly for children and put on the air over the NBC network at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, so that it could catch all children...