Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were written in 1592-94, because they contain innumerable topical references "obvious to an historian." "Mortal moon," for example, was a stock epithet for Queen Elizabeth. Sonnet 107 therefore could only refer to the Queen's safe survival after the attempt of her Spanish physician, Dr. Lopez, to poison...
Emma was married to Thomas Hardy for 38 years.* Her style as a literary wife is suggested by the remark she made about the admiring ladies who thronged about her husband in London after he became famous: "They are the poison," said Emma complacently. "I am the antidote." Emma never let Hardy forget that his literary reputation was vastly inflated, and after she failed to talk him out of publishing that "vicious" novel Jude the Obscure, she lost virtually all interest in her husband's writings. But at the same time her interest in her own innocuous poems continued...
...labor's prospects of uprooting right-to-work are dim, the prospects of the National Right-to-Work Committee, under its President S. D. Cadwal-lader, a Cincinnati railroad conductor, of planting it in new ground are even dimmer. In industrial states, right-to-work is political poison. Says one A.F.L.-C.I.O. spokesman: "I'd like to see them put it on the ballot...
...Thanksgiving message President Johnson made a great point of it, urged U.S. citizens "to close down the poison springs of hatred and intolerance and fanaticism." Texas' Governor John Connally, still in bed, said: "I think we all must suffer for a lack of tolerance, lack of understanding, the passion, the prejudice, the hate and the bigotry which permeates the whole society in which we live and which manifested itself here on Friday...
...think tears are awful, they taste like poison...