Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Physician v. Poison. A writer in the New York Herald Tribune once called...
...drawing $60 per month was removed from the pension rolls, ushered out of the National Military Home. At midnight he called on Col. Vernon Roberts, the Home's chief medical officer, shot him dead. ¶ In Washington an aged clerk was turned out of the Senate. He took poison, cut his throat. ¶ In Philadelphia an ex-Army captain wrote to President Roosevelt: "Suicide is the only way I can provide for those dependent on me, by making available to them the miserable balance due me on my adjusted compensation certificate [$275] . . . Why have you not had the honesty...
OBELISTS AT SEA-C. Daly King- Knopf ($2). Gangsters and robbery, shooting and poison, autopsy and body-stealing on a great Atlantic liner make adequate background for the mental and physical activities of leading exponents of four schools of psychology...
...give you this account in case it may be beneficial for somebody, knowing how susceptible these animals are to strychnine poison...
...forced to resign or have been rudely thrown out of their chairs. No other eminent scientists have followed the example of Professor Hermann Jacobsohn, Indo-Germanic philologist at Marburg, who threw himself under a train. But many a Jew in Germany is known to be carrying an ampoule of poison for escape in case of race riot...