Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Time & again the trial has plowed on while various defendants were excused: 1) to have teeth fixed; 2) to go apartment-hunting; 3) to sit up with sick relatives; 4) to be treated for poison ivy and carbuncles...
...surest weapon against the roach is extreme temperature. The insect thrives between 70 and 80° Fahrenheit, but can be killed by dry air at 86°, becomes numb at 35°, dies at 23°. It is also very susceptible, when it can be reached, to poison. In Manhattan the most common varieties of roach are the American (an inch and a half long) and the German (half as large) ; the German is locally known as the "Croton bug" because it first invaded the city in large numbers when holes were cut in walls for water pipes...
...hair shirt, the crown of poison ivy, the shame...
...Speaker, center field (Cleveland wine distributer); and George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, right field (who lives on annuities in Manhattan). Absent were Lieut. Commander Mickey Cochrane, catcher, who failed to get leave, and Ty Cobb, left field, who wired from his California retirement that he had a bad case of poison...
...laboratory animals in small doses, DDT produced poisoning symptoms like those from carbolic acid. It excited the animals' central nervous system, gave them the shivers, paralyzed their feet, finally killed some of them. The poison was cumulative...