Word: poisonally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Straub of Munich, with good knowledge of cool München Brau, remarked: "Alcohol is the oldest pleasure poison known to man. . . . It is the taking of wrong amounts of alcohol by those whose systems are not properly adjusted which has caused all the trouble with drink since Noah...
...hills of Württemberg-they were really motor trucks. Huge "bombers" and darting "pursuit planes" soared aloft-they were only toy balloons towed by motorcyclists. Great "howitzers" and "field guns" rumbled past-they were made of wood. Finally 25,000 soldiers marched, skirmished and countermarched amid clouds of "poison gas"-the gas was a nonpoisonous chemical fog, the latest invention of German scientists. Thus the traditional autumn maneuvres of the German army took place last week with vivid realism, despite the disarming of Germany under the Treaty of Versailles...
...life-supporting chemical elements. Advance apostles of this curious era had been propounding their visions at the Williamstown Institute of Politics, where President James F. Norris of the Society warned sentimentalists that, along with all other human activities, wars were going to be conducted with increased laboratory efficiency, employing poison gases and other destructive chemicals. Other speakers-not without opposition-discounted humanity's programs for conserving natural resources such as coal and oil, promising that chemists would provide substitutes if and when needed...
...Vigilant Wets howled about a Government which tried to poison its drinkers. Said the New York World: "Jonathan Swift had much the same idea of a short cut to the solution of a vexatious problem when he wrote his Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from being a Burden to their Parents or the Country. Swift's proposal was to fatten the children and then eat them. Swift wrote in irony. The Prohibition Bureau is in earnest. The goal of its research is a poison which will kill...
...warned them not to stuff beans into their ears or noses. They'd never heard of the trick before. The minute the mother was out of sight they ran for the bean jar. "Human nature doesn't change. Our boys and girls are being ruined with the poison they sell for liquor nowadays. I know of things too terrible to tell-hip liquor at dances, lovers' lanes, roadhouses, increasing illegitimacy. And I have a daughter 16 years old." Illinoisans were amused, amazed, intrigued. "Boss" Brennan had jumped from the back room to the stump. What...