Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This new drug has been found to be a specific cure for blood poisoning and gonorrhea, and a powerful remedy for pneumonia and meningitis. It is also a distressing poison, sometimes causing, if not taken with proper precautions, itching rashes, jaundice, agranulocytosis (lack of white blood corpuscles, which the system needs to fight off infection) and cyanosis. Cyanosis is due to the sulfur of the sulfanilamide combining with the hemoglobin of red blood corpuscles. This prevents the red corpuscles from carrying oxygen through the system and as the result, the body turns blue. Such catastrophes may happen if a patient...
...Majesty the Cabinet's resignation, and the Cabinet was then immediately reformed under Premier Tatarescu-without Foreign Minister Titulescu. At about the same time M. Titulescu began feeling queer, and soon eight doctors were working frantically at St. Moritz to save the great Rumanian statesman from death by poison...
...Hooray For What! Wynn is an innocent from Sprinkle, Indiana, who has invented a gas to poison worms. He and the gas are taken to Geneva and used to make a war. If poison gas were a more humorous subject, the play might have been better. On its own or in other surroundings Paul Haakon's "Hero Ballet" might have been brilliant. But it is flat in an Ed Wynn show...
...Masters published 200-odd hard-bitten epitaphs from an imaginary small-town graveyard, entitled the collection Spoon River Anthology. Bizarre in 1915, the book's candor seems natural in 1937, thus serves as a calculus of the reading public's growing ability to accept life's poison with life's meat...
...consequent duties of faithful, bustling Lawrence Farrell, once his dresser, now his play manager, is to beguile Lunt out of these funks. Farrell bounces in between acts with box-office reports, fanciful tales of extra chairs required in the balcony. Applause is Lunt's meat, disapproval his poison. During Reunion in Vienna in London he was making a curtain speech when some one called "Louder!"' Lunt thought the man said ''Lousy!" and was ready to quit the stage and go back to farming in Genesee Depot...