Word: poisonal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Educators are much exercised over the wholesale dissemination of "literary poison" in current fiction. A Canadian interested in the matter points out in the "Educational Review" that seventeen American magazines have been officially barred from Canada because of the salacious character of their contents. In discussing this problem Professor BHss Perry says: "Pernicious is that class of books that identify human behavior with animal behavior...
...sparkling glasses, on the dishes and dishes of food that succeeded one another. Savory food it was, nourishing, succulent; but on the little cards beside each place it was called by strange names-Borax, Benzoate, Coal Tar, Copper Sulfate, Saltpeter, Saccharin. Thus were those dishes named, each after a poison, out of sentiment. For, had it not been for Dr. Wiley, the names might have become the dishes, though they would have been called Bread, Jam, Sugar, Chocolate, out of sentiment. Each of the items on the menu of that feast was the name of an enemy Dr. Wiley...
...taken a year off to study Chemistry in Berlin. Returning, he analyzed some table syrups for the Indiana Board of Health, found them "abominably adulterated." Made Chief Chemist to the U. S. Government, he began his famed food experiments on human beings. In his Bureau, he formed a "poison squad" of volunteers-12 gallant youths from the clerical force who swore to eat nothing beyond the curious diet he daily administered to them. He fed them on advertised foods that contained boracic acid, sulfates, benzoates, formaldehyde; he watched their cheeks grow lean, their temples hollow, their skins turn the color...
...report was well calculated to arouse the fears of the closely-packed nations of Europe; indeed, its portent is grave. It pointed out that in the last war some 30 poison gases were used, gases which caused burns, destroyed the mucous membranes, produced temporary blindness, brought about violent sneezing...
There is a painless gas which produces a fatal effect on the heart, of which the victim would have no knowledge before - or after - he dropped dead. There are gases which upset the digestive functions and prevent the taking of food. Other gases poison the blood and prevent it from carrying oxygen to the several parts of the body. Gases may be used which have a gradual effect, not noticed at first, or which-like mustard gas-seep into solid objects and infest a neighborhood for weeks...