Word: poisonally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basin. Some say it was the conjure wrought by one of his many women when she laid his wife's death sheet over his bed. Some say it was his curse for biting a hole in a preacher's cheek. Most likely it was the poison with which he defied God and nature, the boll-weevil killer that none would help him spray in the fields. He comes back from the hospital only the shriveled trunk of the towering black pine he was, to die of despair. Other prominent figures are ripe young Joy, April's last...
...which the feminine thigh is perennially displayed in frilly netherthings like the paper lace on a lamb chop. Heedless that he had taken coppers from the purses and bread from the mouths of kiosk women too weak to resist him, the strapping Abbé cried: "If I saw poison being offered to a child, I would seize it and destroy it. These periodicals empoison the soul created by God. They incite to ribaldry and lust...
...avenge the three political "outs" who were executed (TIME, June 8, 1925), after they blew up the Sveti Krai Cathedral, in Sofia, just before a state funeral. Or perhaps the bomb thrower was "just a man with a grudge." There was no telling. In Bulgaria the Tsar sometimes finds poison in his dessert (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925) ; and a Premier may be prostrated but scarcely surprised if his own brother is shot down in the street (TIME, Nov. 9, 1925). . . . Most unfortunately, Chief of the Secret Police Ikonomoff was not able to find the bomb for which he searched...
Thou Desperate Pilot. Zoe Akins, who loves the refined minority and wrote Declasse, offered this as first of a forthcoming series of plays. The title is derived from Romeo's line on suicide by poison.* Through the intricate entanglements of silken society, Zelda Beale (Miriam Hopkins), U. S. girl, is inveigled into accepting Louis Brant (Charles Henderson), although drawn by love to Lord Eric Hamilton (David Hawthorne). When Brant has broken under the last cocktail, she is free to marry Lord Hamilton, who proves himself very English by rigidly rejecting all conciliatory overtures. So Zelda jumps off the roof...
...Elmira, N. Y., Edith M. Stewart, Elmira College senior, drank poison; friends said because she feared suspension for having attended a dance at nearby Cornell University without permission...