Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PUZZLE IN POISON - Anthony Berkeley-Crime Club ($2). Arsenic poisoning of a retired English engineer, solved by one of his friends. Style: deft; characterization: good; ending: clever...
Japanese commanders, admitting that their route to their objective literally was being carved through masses of resisting Chinese, complained that the Chinese were spoiling water supplies in their retreat by dumping their dead into wells. Chinese countered with the charge that the Japanese had used poison gas in capturing the strategic city of Kwangtsi, retaken, then lost later by the Chinese. Military authorities forwarded their proof to Geneva where China is expected to place it before the League Council session this week...
...week weather-frightened Hollywood, eyes cocked on horizontal thunderheads, unfurled a million-dollar umbrella. Theatre attendance had been falling off; reports had come from Manhattan that Marie Antoinette, which cost MGM $2,500,000, was actually being hissed; exhibitors had called some of the studios' most valuable properties "poison at the box office"; in Washington the ground was being leveled for Thurman Arnold's anti-trust suit against the major Hollywood studios. Hollywood's answer to all this was characteristic...
...police took Nurse Toppan. In her confession she said she had murdered "for the fun of it." At the insane asylum she became a model inmate, but at first they had to put her in a strait jacket and force-feed her. She thought someone was trying to poison...
...therefore was expected to make British Science's annual philosophical discourse, avoiding grubby details. In his address, Lord Ray leigh defended Science against the charge that it has made war horrible, using the now-familiar argument that the deadliest weapons of modern war - e.g., high explosives, airplanes, poison gas - were developed for peaceful purposes...