Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...primary. Candidate Chappie got the front steps of the White House for a rostrum. "I make this announcement," he said, "after discussing with President Hoover at luncheon the campaign leading up to victory of real Republicans in Wisconsin. ... I take my stand with President Hoover. . . . It's time poison-peddlers be driven to cover...
...qualitative disarmament" Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, who introduced that part of the motion, appeared to mean the limitation or reduction of weapons having an "offensive quality" (such as poison gas or submarines). Without cracking a smile, the Japanese Delegate mildly observed that "too much qualitative disarmament might easily lead to too much quantitative disarmament...
...mercury fetches $1 a pound, but evil accompanies the wealth. Quicksilver is a. fickle metal. It is poisonous and those who work with it are usually affected. The pure metal may be absorbed by the skin or the vapors inhaled. Alchemists discovered this as they did most other facts known about this keystone of their hermetic arts. One compound of mercury (calomel, mercurous chloride) is a useful purge. Another compound (mercuric bichloride) is a corrosive poison (TIME, March 7). Quicksilver helped Joseph Priestley discover oxygen (1/74) and thus start Antoine Laurent Lavoisier on modern chemistry. It dissolves most metals (iron...
...been proven that the greatest horse in Australian turf history had died of poison soon after his arrival in the U. S., dark suspicions might have hung for years between U. S. and Australian sportsmen. Last week University of California pathologists finished their examination of the vitals of the late great Phar Lap ("Wink of the Sky"). They had, they reported, found traces of poison, probably some of the insecticide found on grass which the horse was known to have eaten (TIME, April 18). But they had found only two milligrams of arsenic, an amount so small that it should...
...grimness of the play does not lie in a series of murders as is so often the case but in the presence of a single character, Bobble Spence, a victim of poison gas who can neither speak nor move sufficiently to write. He it is who in the end gives the answer to the question "Who did it?", but it is not given before a long investigation by Inspector Faucet, the detective assigned to the case. By means of some tricky work Faucet, ably and amusingly played by Francis Compton, decides that the only person who knows anything about...