Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horse (sometimes an ass, a goat) with a sharp horn (from a few inches to seven feet long) protruding from his forehead. In combat he could destroy a lion. He refused to allow man to capture him alive. His horn, said the alchemists, would act as an antidote for'poison, would cure convulsions, the holy disease (epilepsy...
...Switzerland, a physician named Dr. Alexandre Garabedian who has been exposing certain Abyssinian matters before a committee of the League of Nations, said last week that when he was court physician to the Empress Zauditu, her nephew King Taffari twice asked him to poison...
...make any defense. When the Mahatma came to the village of Ankhi on his walk he rebuked the inhabitants for their passive refusal to allow the local British police to buy food. "It is against religious principles to starve anyone," said the saint. "I would suck snake's poison even from General Dyer, should he be bitten...
...sturdy snouts with which they will bore into billions of green cotton bolls this summer. Patient planters, breaking up their ground for the new crop, plowed legions of the pest back into the ground to destruction. But legions more crawled out prepared to multiply. Not plows nor prayers nor poison can halt Boll Weevil. His race goes marching on, month after month, year after year, to the dissatisfaction of planters and consumers alike...
...ladies who pose for Independent artists seem to have a distinct disinclination to stand up for any length of time), a hun-dred such nudes leave an impression of acute melancholia. Sprightlier are the political pictures: ruined speculators selling their clothes in Wall Street; Uncle Sam pouring poison into a bottle of whiskey; City Hall Riot, painted on two sheets of wall board by the members of the John Reed Club* which shows a prognathous-jawed policeman with an emerald-green face cracking the pate of an unfortunate individual with a henna nose. Last week's exhibition differed from...