Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next war, militarists agree, will be a war of gas. It will be waged on civilians as well as soldiers. The French, a practical people, realize this, yet they have done little to teach their civilians a defense against poison gas. This failure the French Congress of Hygiene, which met at the Paris Pasteur Institute last week, sought to remedy. Poland, Germany, Russia and Italy teach their people gas protection. The Congress advised the French Government to imitate and enlarge the methods...
...cannot handle masks -children, invalids, the aged, the wounded -should have cellar refuges. Large cities should have several refuge districts with a protected cellar in each. Every new, large building should have a gas-proof basement. The cellars should be ventilated through tall chimneys. This is essential, because poison gases discharged from either ground or airplane tanks are heavy, settle close to earth. Outside of each community there should be safety zones, protected like Red Cross stations by international agreement...
...becoming paralyzed. Victims, their consciences uneasy, called the palsy "Jake paralysis." Medical research confirmed their suspicions. Everyone afflicted was a drinker of Jamaica ginger, as an intoxicant or a medicine (TIME, March 24, 1930). Followed a frenzied search by the Government for the specific cause. Chemists eventually revealed the poison as the phosphoric acid ester of tricresol. Its inclusion in the beverage was a manufacturers' accident. Manufacturers were indicted (TIME, July...
Brother of best-selling Grand Duchess (Education of a Princess) Marie, tall, fascinating Dmitri assisted Prince Felix Youssoupov to poison, shoot and drown the notorious "Black Monk" Gregory Efimovitch Rasputin. Hostesses are warned that the question "Do tell us all about it!" instantly freezes Grand Duke Dmitri into hurt hauteur...
...that lies buried in the back yard. His money begins to work him ill, embroils in him an unhappy affair with a blackmailing his daughter with a man, sickens his wife. His wife has long guessed and forgiven his crime, but when she finds he has been unfaithful she poisons herself- with cyanide. The attending physician suspects Mr. Marble, points to his eccentric life, his possession of poison, his books on poison cases. With one great shriek of ironical laughter Mr. Marble discovers that he must go to the gallows for a crime he has not committed...