Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edwin H. Hughes, Methodist Bishop of Chicago: "My great-grandfather was taught alcohol was a food, my grandfather was taught it was a beverage, my father was taught it was a stimulant, but I was taught alcohol was a poison. It is time we taught our children that intoxicating liquor was born in Hell and we mean to keep it there...
...Fedora, Maria Jeritza was about to drain a glass of poison in the presence of the tenor hero (Giovanni Martinelli). She climbed upon a table, swayed there in tragic, shimmering loveliness. The table toppled, collapsed, spilled her into Martinelli...
...told of a medical genius who attends his best friend, an engineering genius. He and the friend's wife are overpowered by love for each other, she becoming enceinte. Death of the husband will mean life for them, and the doctor brings it about with a slow poison. Through tortuous labyrinths, accompanied by an idiot's violin whining of life and death, the guilty pair develop their deeds from dark sins to a triumph over destiny...
...volunteer was found. Surrounded by every known antidote for poison, he wolfed down slice after slice in apparent tranquility...
...Gases. The Society went "strongly" on record against ratification of the Geneva protocol forbidding the use of poison gases in warfare. Reasons: "National safety and on the grounds of humanity...