Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death the right to take their own lives as the Greeks gave Socrates a bowl of hemlock. In the modern Nazi State the procedure recommended last week is for the German jailor to enter the cell of the condemned and say, "Here is a pistol and a bottle of poison. Take your choice." According to the Ministry of Justice, "Criminals of the fouler sort should not, of course, receive this privilege. They should be decapitated, as at present. The theory of permitting a man to carry out his own sentence is the logical fulfillment of the idea that the last...
Pausing to rest, the spider swayed too close to a free foreclaw, was quickly caught and held helpless. Thereafter for a while the battle was even. Each a prisoner of the other, neither could get into position to unleash the poison which would end the fight. On the fourth day the spider tore loose, but it cost her one leg, part of another. Spectators raised the odds to 20-to-1. Like a Gulliver bound with Lilliputian strands, the scorpion struggled until its forelegs were swollen and paralyzed. Finally in a burst of desperate frenzy it freed its stinger from...
...that bites Claudette Colbert in this DeMille production is a real one. Studio officials expressed surprise when the director deviated so far from realism as to permit the extraction of its poison sac before it struck...
...night of the banquet, Cellini's affairs have gotten out of hand. Alessandro, who wants Angela at the banquet, introduces her as Cellini's mistress. Furiously jealous, the Duchess puts poison in Cellini's wine. Cellini gives the wine to a courtier he dislikes, pretends to be dead until the Duchess, overcome with remorse, embraces him upon the floor. An accident restores Cellini to complete control of the scandalous situation. Angela calls the Duke by his pet name, causing the Duchess to perceive that her husband has been unfaithful. At the end of The Affairs of Cellini, the goldsmith...
...daughter of an obscure Lancashire actor. Her unfortunate mother trouped provincial music halls for years, finally died of cancer too. Three men committed suicide on Dolores' account. When she was a handsome overdeveloped child of 15 one John Wadham, secretary to the aristocratic Caroline, Lady Gordon Lennox, took poison. The next suicide was that of Lieut. Frank Amsden, her first husband. In 1929, Frederick Atkinson, a painter and writer of flamboyant verses, did away with himself after friends finally convinced him of Dolores' persistent infidelities...