Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victim invariably has a hoof-mark around the left eye, helps make plain people restive. When the city goes bankrupt for $576,000,000, with its Mayor junketing in Paris, public apathy is at last aroused. At a property-owners' protest banquet, winged words fan the flames. "Poison'ly, Mister Tussmester and fellow goats, poison'ly, I'm getting tired eating all the tin kens our friends in City Hall has been feeding us the last few years. Even a goat becomes gradually tired from eating tin kens, tin kens, tin kens, tin kens." A riot...
...lurking in every misty street; twitching bodies are hurled from burly coaches into squalid streets; gentlemen with slanted eyes find their necks stretched in uncomfortable machines while a merry troop of rats nibbles their big toes; there is the sparse fellow with a shredded wheat beard who carries poison under his finger nails. And just because 5000 miles away a Revolution is being conducted in China, all the male characters in this play meet violent deaths. If one were not cinematically informed as to Chinese proclivities, he would be sorely tempted to apply the word melodrama...
...Communists had organized to poison food . . . and burn down granaries throughout the Reich. . . . They planned to use every kind of weapon-even hot water, knives and forks and boiling...
Many amazing episodes found in court records, such as an attempt to poison John Browne, are presented to the reader...
...dead away. Rallying round, still other of her gentlemen friends prepare to remove the banker to a more discreet resting place, a somewhat shady private hospital on Riverside Drive. There, to the consternation of one & all, it is revealed that the financier died not of heart failure but from poison. If the banker had spent even more time away from home, it may be hinted, he would probably still be alive...