Word: poisoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...European has a sex life; the Englishman has his hot-water bottle; this is why His Majesty's Colonel Ray Milland can't quite get acclimated to. Rollywood's favorite ninepin, Marlene Dietrich. He's busy looking for Professor Grosig and the formula for a poison gas. In fact, all your old friends are here: the fat German with a sear, the brave little Oxonian who is tortured while keeping his chin up, the big sex-appeal Gypsy boy with a tern shirt and 33 children, the usual retinue of glum Nazi henchmen, and, last, but not least, the genial...
...into operation? Soon it may become too dangerous to discharge waste into the air (as the few existing laboratories do now). Radioactive atoms cannot be safely buried in the ground; they spread widely and might contaminate plants, food, etc. They cannot be thrown into the sea; they would poison the fish, be sucked up in ships' boilers, evaporate and fall in radioactive rains...
...Public Health Service, would compel complete evacuation of the city for months, years or perhaps permanently. Scientists can only guess at how widely the effects of such a catastrophe might spread. Would the radioactive water be sucked up by roots and contaminate food plants ? Would the poison be passed on to successive plant generations by radioactive seeds...
...heroine of Therese is mired in a tight bourgeois world of money, damp country houses and spiritual smugness. Bored with her oafish husband, she tries to poison him. The poison plot is discovered and the husband recovers. Therese is kicked out and sent to Paris, where Author Mauriac harrowingly portrays her disintegration. Like all his sinners, she tries to repent. A confession scene in which Therese was absolved, says Mauriac, was torn up, because "I could not see the priest who would have possessed the qualifications necessary if he was to hear her confession with understanding...
Georgetown University's Dr. Edward B. Tuohy, who exhibited the hypospray at a Washington meeting last fortnight, foresaw a crop of new whodunit plots: "Why, with this gun someone could readily substitute poison for insulin, shoot his victim by pressing the hypospray gun against him in a crowd, and . . . the victim wouldn't know he'd been...