Word: poisoner
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Stepping onto the visitors gallery, she shouted: "Boys! Don't cat that infernal stuff. It's poison." The students replied by tossing cigars and cigarettes toward Carrie, but the Kansas hatchet-swinger refused to give up and descended into the fray. She slapped faces, seized cigars and pipes, tried to sell hatches for her crusade, and left only after 2,000 stamping students forced her back onto the electric car for Boston...
...task was to carry "Roman civilization" to East Africa. From Italian Somaliland he rode into Ethiopia at the head of an army of 60,000 men, a strapping figure in his desert uniform, wearing a monocle. His "Hell on Wheels" offensive bogged down. Finally, by liberal use of poison gas and bombs, he scattered Ras Desta's barefooted Ethiopians, and on horseback at the head of his troops he entered the village of Neghelli, which he described in flamboyant dispatches as "the Southern capital...
...most sensational sadistic murders of the '20s. In 1925, he forced a state government clerk named Madge Oberholtzer to board a train with him and, while his bodyguards stood by, brutally ravished her in a lower berth. After they got off the train, Madge took poison. She died 29 days later-mostly because Grand Dragon Stephenson, instead of getting the medical aid she begged for, held her prisoner for hours more. (Boasted he to a henchman: "This takes guts to do this, Gentry. She is dying.") Last week. Convict Stephenson, summoned to hear the decision, got his second chance...
...Halls. In Milwaukee, after they had been consulted by an insurance representative for a local department store, University of Wisconsin botanists issued a general warning to several hundred anonymous purchasers of floral bouquets that, unknown to the store, the "autumn berries" in each bouquet were plain sprigs of poison...
...many expressions of endearment ("My dearest Mummy-Girl") that Martin Bormann (still missing after years of Allied search) was a human being-if a horribly peculiar one. The Bormanns raised a perfect Aryan family of nine, taking care that "none of our children gets depraved and diseased by the poison of Christianity." One day in January 1944, Bormann jubilantly informed his wife that he had succeeded in seducing the actress "M." "Lucky fellow!-now I . . . feel doubly and unbelievably happily married." Gerda Bormann responded like a true Nazi consort. "You will have to see to it that one year...