Word: poisoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plugs & Slugs. In his new job Clarke is ringmaster for a temperamental menagerie of talent, including Poison Penman John O'Donnell and Broadway Columnist Danton Walker, who has a crystal ball suffering from cataract. One of Clarke's chores is a daily conference with Editorial Writer Reuben Maury and Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor (who used to get their signals from Patterson). Sitting in with them now is a brand-newcomer, quiet, 44-year-old Donald Thompson, an American Weekly graduate. Clarke hired him to backstop Maury. Thompson expects no trouble in adapting himself to Daily News policies-plugs...
Harvard alumni all over the country flooded Massachusetts Hall with letters and telegrams of protest. The Corporation indirectly sponsored an Atlantic antidote to the Conant poison...
Their fate supported Vice Admiral W. HP. Blandy's remark that the atomic bomb is a poison weapon" (TIME...
Contaminating Policy. The U.S. delegates came home sputtering with indignation. What if other small nations took the same stand? The result, U.S. airlines hold, would be poison to U.S. world-girdling ambitions. In the case of countries like India, which has already spoken in favor of the 50-50 idea, the poison would be deadly: her airlines are still fledglings. While U.S. aviation looked on apprehensively, the State Department was trying to ease the tension. Hand-picked missionaries have left or are about to leave to do some top level, pre-treaty softening-up in China, India, Brazil (Newfoundland...
...back & forth like a rockinghorse, one hammering at his solar plexus, the other at his kidneys. And he has hardly got his breath back when he has to watch a huge criminal (Fred Steele) force a small damp grey one (Elisha Cook Jr.) to drink a glass of poison. After that it is only a question of time before the big man has laid out Marlowe with a fistful of small auto parts...