Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal bug-fighters hoped that last month's great dust storm (TIME, May 21) would play havoc with pests as well as with crops. Nevertheless they went out to do battle with sprays, dusting, barriers, poison, traps, burning...
...ants found the milk drippings, scurried back to the ant hill with the tidings. When Mrs. Patrick returned from the tomato patch, the crib, the coverlet, Harold's head were a rusty-red quiver. The baby was unconscious. Doctors thought that he might recover from the ant-bite poison (formic acid). But the red ants, like the all-devouring soldier ants which terrorize tropical Asia, had nipped the sight from...
...Murder scene a rich and powerful California lady lies in a deathlike trance, shrouded, while the grisly organ music of her funeral fills her mansion. Lorinda Channing (Gale Sondergaard) feigns death with the aid of a struggling physician (Walter Abel) to trap a relative who has been trying to poison her. Returning from the tomb, she personally executes her would-be assassin, neatly shifts the blame to another. Between waves of goose-pimples, audiences have spells of apprehension lest good old Walter Abel get himself hanged for a deed...
BLACK FOG-Charles J. Dutton-Dodd, Mead ($2). Murder by poison gas in New England brings Detective Rogan out of pseudo-retirement...
...irrigate their lands, and they had begun to write, Belief in immortality is indicated by the sacrifice of servants after a royal death. Clay cups were always found in the tombs beside the victims, and Dr. Woolley's energetic wife guessed that they drank a narcotic or poison. Her husband finds this plausible, makes bold thus to recreate a royal Sumerian funeral: "Down the sloping passage comes a procession of people, the members of the court, soldiers, men-servants, and women, the latter in all their finery . . . and with them musicians bearing harps or lyres, cymbals, and sistra. . . . Each...