Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Backed by Pink Pills & Fruitatives, Father Arthur Hardy, already a social leader of Ottawa, was appointed Speaker of the Canadian Senate by Liberal Premier William Lyon MacKenzie King. This position he filled with apparent success despite his almost total deafness. Not long ago Daughter Mary mistook poison for Fruitatives in her medicine closet and died. Last January Son Fulford Patrick Hardy eloped with a 16-year-old Toronto school girl, and after a wild ride from Toronto to Detroit to Toledo to Crown Point, Ind., finally got married. They separated soon after...
...townspeople with one mind begin to fancy themselves as great tragic figures with a story. They begin to fumble artlessly with suicide, murder and passion in the tradition of the great dramatists. The actors' innocent prattle of art and souls off-stage and on becomes a ghoulish poison running through the unconscious town. The butcher inexpertly throws an axe at his wife. Jim Clancy jumps off the pier at low tide. It rains and rains. Finally the local member of the Dail Eireann, an odd character who looks part penguin, part shellfish (Ralph Cullinan), is moved by his recollection...
...world conferences of both physicians and scientists, alcohol has been pronounced not a stimulant but a poison, and rightfully belongs with strychnine and the rest. Therefore advertising such a poison as a drink for human beings, in my opinion, is not only contrary to the letter of the law, but most of all, to the spirit...
...There have been charges in the English Press," he cried, "that Schering-Kahlbaum are a 'secret arsenal.' that we are making poison gas. Preposterous! I invite the Press to come...
...cried, "we are not making poison gas. What are we making? Well, for one thing Schering-Kahlbaum are spending millions of marks to isolate the male sex hormone. Two years ago I predicted that the Nazi Government would do much to restore the German people to their primitive vigor. Most emphatically I am today in the business not of killing men but of curing them. Our hormone experiments are designed to increase manly vigor and courage. Several Berlin policemen have volunteered as subjects and we are making progress...