Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agents for the A. S. P. C. A., had been assigned to the Park Avenue district to catch poison-sprinklers who have been endangering the lives of expensive Park Avenue dogs (TIME. Jan. 12). Neighbors in the immediate vicinity of the suspicious house had complained particularly. They told the agents that twelve nearby dogs had died in agony. Two fine bird dogs, valued at $500 each, had barely been saved...
...Lancaster, Pa., Mrs. Aline Hall, 22, wanted her husband to give her a fur coat. Her mother-in-law wanted a canary. The mother-in-law got a fur coat; Mrs. Aline Hall got the bird. Mrs. Aline Hall took poison, was dangerously...
Commented Wet Congressman Fiorello La Guardia of New York: "The country was up in arms against the use of deadly poison. This is but one concession...
Throughout the week Professor Malvoz and other scientists enjoying the confidence of Queen Elisabeth pursued their investigation. Throughout the world, industrialists owning factories from which smoke and gases belch watched anxiously to see whether Her Majesty's investigators would conclude that the "poison fog" which took so many Belgian lives was poisoned by the factories of the Meuse valley. Seldom before in recent history has a Queen so embarrassed the Cabinet of her husband's realm...
...injected into Doc Dobbin's flank. Within a day, he felt sick. A week later when he had recovered he was given another dose. After the third injection, each succeeding dose was increased. At the end of three months, Doc Dobbin could stand ten times as much diphtheria poison as he had first received. He had formed substances in his blood to fight the germs. Laboratory men withdrew blood from Doc Dobbin's neck. They stored it in sterile glass cylinders, allowed the valuable antibody serum to separate from the rest of the blood. After three days...