Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, Stephen and Thomas Hall, 21-year-old twins, incurably crippled with Friedreich's paralysis† for twelve years, sat in their two wheelchairs, drank two glasses of poison. They had planned suicide for six months. They were rushed to a hospital, the poison pumped from their stomachs. They were expected to live. But Friedreich's paralysis is incurable...
...there's plenty of space in this review and nothing much else to talk about. Miss Stanwyck is modern and Miss Stanwyck, though being old-fashioned enough to fall head over heels in love, as she so graphically describes the emotion, is modern enough to believe that marriage is poison to said emotion. So she goes away on weekends (that's where they get the title, that and a sly hint from the box-office.) But the hero, being a gentleman, finally says no, he cares too much to let it go on, so they get married, despite Miss Stanwyck...
...Hotly debated a bill introduced by the Scottish temperance M. P., Edwin Scrynigeour, to prohibit commercial liquor sales in Britain and provide that liquor sold for medicinal use must be labeled "Poison...
Cried shocked Conservative Lieut.-Colonel Sir William Wayland, as he moved rejection of the bill: "Just fancy a bottle of rare old crusted port labeled 'poison...
Summoned to court, the poison-sprinkler, Mrs. Helen Corel, housekeeper for one John J. Smith, realtor, first stated that she had been after rats. But after being questioned she admitted that she had intended the arsenic for dogs. She said she did not wish to kill them; she was fond of dogs in the country or a large back yard. She had only meant to discourage them from loitering. Her basement windows had to be washed twice a day because of them. "Early in the morning and late at night and . . . during the day there were dogs in front...