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Word: poisoner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Frederick Ogden Thomas Jefferson Albert Stifel II '44 of Mower Hall won the Lampoon treasurer hunt yesterday when he found the prize, poison jelly beans and a Spicy Adventure hidden in John Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPY'S TREASURE HUNT WON BY YARDLING FINDING BEANS | 11/27/1940 | See Source »

Once having discovered the hidden objects, the prize-winner became curious to know if the beans really contained poison. They were accordingly fed to a dog found straying about the Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPY'S TREASURE HUNT WON BY YARDLING FINDING BEANS | 11/27/1940 | See Source »

...watched the dog, he turned slowly over on his side, whined, and after struggling for awhile, died peacefully. I was thus convinced that the beans really contained poison," Stifel stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPY'S TREASURE HUNT WON BY YARDLING FINDING BEANS | 11/27/1940 | See Source »

...wouldn't be so silly as to cancel my subscription, probably because I'm Scotch; but if you must be funny, let's have a joke page and let the rest be facts. There's too much poison-pen stuff from Dorothy Parker and Pegler, without your taking a hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 21, 1940 | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...Arab) lay on deck, gazing at the Southern Cross during "endless discussion of freedom and revolution." By day they sank other ships, rescued no survivors. Trelawny rescued a sheik's daughter from African pirates, married her, took her privateering around the Indian Ocean until she died (of poison). Brokenhearted Trelawny burned her body on a pyre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Childe Edward | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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