Word: poisoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's progressive Sarah Lawrence College. Florence wanted to become a doctor, so that she could go back to the reservation to help cure her people of tuberculosis and trachoma. Last week Florence was home again, without getting to New York. She had tasted white man's poison along...
...date. Because they followed the time of different broadcasting stations, they failed to meet. When the girl failed to show up, the boy went home, at 7:40 (his time) blew out his brains. Brokenhearted because her lover had not appeared, the girl went to her own home, took poison, died at 7:45 (her time). Both actually died at the same moment, and just as the Congress clock was chiming...
Last week the cartoon seemed prophetic: the Los Angeles County sheriff had in custody a 14-year-old boy who had poisoned a 50-year-old woman. He got the idea, and the poison recipe, he said, from a comic book. There were other alarming cases, too. A 13-year-old boy's parents came home from the movies to find his body hanging in the garage. At his feet was a crime comic depicting a hanging body. Two boys, 14 and 15, were caught committing a burglary. The crime comics they had with them had inspired the crime...
Verres lost his life after he refused to give Mark Antony some of his Corinthian bronzes. "The story is told that when Mark Antony sent him the poison to drink in a murrhine cup, the most valuable article in his collection, Verres drank the poison quickly and dashed the cup upon the marble floor, smashing it into a thousand pieces...
Whoever Seattle's next conductor was, he would have to be a man who could be decorative at teas in the fashionable Highlands and Broadmoor as well as forceful on the podium. Said one Seattleite: "We ought to start him out right-with a baton of poison...