Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...save something from the fire. Some preachers think U. S. marriage is in a bad way. Most lawyers know U. S. divorce is. Because there are no Federal divorce laws in the U. S., because one State's legal meat is another State's poison, not even an expert can work out every divorce problem in his head...
Ptosis is an ugly ailment of the upper eyelids. The nerves and muscles which keep the lids rolled up, except during winking, blinking and sleeping, are paralyzed by heredity, disease, poison, or hysteria. Ptosis is not often curable...
...locomotives, 26,000 freight and 411 passenger cars. Last week this whole property, $358,000,000 in assets, passed out of stockholders' hands into receivership. The railroad industry saw its first major bankruptcy since Depression, looked on glumly as the stockmarket absorbed the news like a draft of poison...
...right. Wide swamplands made the Japanese left wing impregnable against Chinese attack. But against the exposed Japanese right wing General Ma flung his cavalry in charge after Chinese charge. On the centre of the battle front both armies were entrenched, fought each other with every modern weapon except poison...
Medicine soon reported that cure was extremely difficult. The poison had degenerated certain nerves. In many cases, where the ginger-drinking had been small, the victims recovered control of their heads and hands. But recovery from the foot paralysis has been rare. Victims raged. The Government was to blame, they reasoned. The pure-food laws if properly enforced would have protected them...