Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great poet Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller conceived the character of Luisa Miller, made her the unhappy heroine of his play Kabale und Liebe. Italian Poet Salvatore Cammarano fashioned the opera libretto from the Schiller piece, aptly labeled the acts Love, Intrigue, Poison. The scene is in the Tyrol. Luisa, a beautiful peasant, loves Rodolfo who turns out to be the son of the village's haughty overlord. He would forbid their marriage, arrest Luisa and her doting father. But Rodolfo, Hamletwise, knows of the murder which won his father his titles and his wealth, threatens him with exposure...
Died. Professor Fred Neher, 62, for 38 years a Princeton faculty member; at Princeton, N. J.; after a three-week illness. Wartime consultant of U. S. Chemical Warfare Service of the Bureau of Mines, he devised antidotes for poison gases...
...susceptible to pneumonia, surgeons prefer local anesthesia. The patient can be propped up in bed the day after his operation, sit in a chair after a week, be well in three weeks. Dangers against which the convalescent must guard include pneumonia, hiccoughing, gas on the stomach. Epsom salt is poison to the convalescent...
Cawthon and Steele were eventually poison to a nervy South Carolina team that lacked a line. Florida 20, South Carolina...
...personal damages. Her husband wanted $50,000 for loss of her services. Moreover, Mrs. Metz's doctor, Ames Lawrence Filiponne of Newark, last week stated that Edward Metz, 6, born after Mrs. Metz had worked for U. S. Radium Corp., was also suffering from the same poison, acquired in utero. The child's affliction, if proved, promised to raise fine medico-legal points. Is he the victim of industrial hazard? Can a concern be held liable for the ills of its employees' descendants...