Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bella Donna. Pola Negri's first American picture is, except for the continuously electric Pola, just another vampire-film, deodorized as much as possible to please the censor. There's a sheik and an English nobleman and a little box of poison and a desert with a prowling lion-and none of it matters very much. Except when Pola appears. Daddy. A blatant assault upon the lachrymal glands, with a few snatches of inimitable comedy by young Mr. Coogan. He is, as you may have guessed, a downtrodden little boy-violinist in search of his long-lost daddy...
Chemists who examined rice left in the pot said enough poison had been used to wipe out the entire community...
Cooks who pour poison in the rice and slay...
...Court, and Senator Borah takes the middle ground, Hiram Johnson leads the extreme opposition- " high priest of all the irreconcilables." Since Borah left the reactionaries to advocate a world court of his own, Johnson has been the undisputed leader of the isolationists. Behind him is the group which preferred poison to the League of Nations on any terms. Meanwhile Senator Johnson has sailed for Europe-to get a first-hand knowledge of the entanglements he wants to avoid. It is his first trip across the Atlantic. Those who will be opposed to Harding in 1924 because of the World Court...
Captain Phillips also asserted that poison gas as a lethal weapon was no more barbarous than rifle or shell fire, for if it kills it kills instantly or not at all. He then read extracts from medical journals that reported that only one per cent of the wounded died as a result of gas poisoning...