Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Began consideration of the Geneva protocol prohibiting use of poison gas in warfare...
...Through National Commander Howard P. Savage of the American Legion, President Coolidge was urged to urge the Senate to reject the Geneva protocol prohibiting the use of poison gas in warfare. Said Commander Savage, vigorous warrior: "Ask any veteran of the A. E. F. whether war could be humane, with or without gas. . . ." Several days later, after a conference with Senator Borah, the President announced that he would support the Geneva protocol. ¶Germany can manufacture methanol (synthetic wood alcohol) for 48? per gallon; in the U. S. the production costs range from 72? to 75?. So, last week President...
...when illegitimate little Dolores turned out a begrudging, bourgeois little Dolly, insensitive to the noble thing her mother had thought she was doing. There was not a dry eye in the kingdom when, not to "atone" but heroic lly to clear the track for Dolly, a vial of suicidal poison was lugged in and "Her minia Barton, stainless soul, had ceased to exist forever...
...grafters and crooks, but he refuses to believe that they would do anything to harm him. The scandals break into the open; the President's big heart breaks with his pals' dishonor. After one last poker revel with them, he returns to the White House and takes poison, thinking it is a sleeping potion. He dies slowly, mourned by the nation-a martyr and a hero. President Coolidge is reported to be annoyed at the book. And well he might be, on reading such a passage as the following: "There came, too, the Vice President, so soon...
Naked. A girl, frail, comes to detest herself, drinks poison, invents ax lovely lie of disappointed love to justify her conduct, clothe her unlovely nature with attractive personality. Doctors come to the rescue. Subsequent arrival of alleged betrayers strips her of the pretty lie, reveals her what she really is. The shame is top cruel. She drinks poison again, dies this time, confessing her naked self...