Word: poisoner
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...factory, when analysed by the ministry, proved to be harmless. But the Brittany doctors had spread the word about Baumol far & wide. A village retailer, afraid to sell any more of the stuff, returned a shipment to the manufacturers. A sample was analysed and found to contain a deadly poison, arsenic acid anhydride...
...first two acts-as 14-year-old Mary Tilford exerts her fearful wiles over schoolmates and grandmother and spreads her poison-The Children's Hour has the lure of mounting melodrama. It is with the last act that something at once harsher and more humane begins to blow through the story, and with the very last scene-when the surviving schoolmistress faces an enlightened, remorseful old lady-that the play takes on, emotionally and morally, a sense of the tragic...
...soldier, policeman, home guardsman or public servant knew when Templer might appear, demanding accurate answers to sarcastic questions. In his air-conditioned office in King's House, he-plotted daring innovations in guerrilla warfare: planes which fly over the jungle broadcasting recorded messages from captured guerrillas; a plant poison spray to clear the roadsides of ambush areas...
...News also regretted the treatment given the matter by a New Haven newspaper: "No written words could have been better contrived to poison town and gown relations than the... Registrar's viciously biased report and editorial ... on the riot ... It is a tragic pity that the staggering community problem posed by City-University relations could only be met by venom and bombast... The present critical situation has been one that called for... understanding, perception, and maturity. These qualities were conspicuously lacking on both sides...
...Poison Speech. Minor roles at the Oxford Playhouse followed. Claire tried out for Webster's The White Devil, which was being put in production by Michael Benthall and Robert Helpmann. Says Benthall: "Suddenly, this little girl appeared and did the poison speech from Romeo and Juliet. She looked enchanting. More important, she had extraordinary technical equipment." The cast was already filled, but Benthall and Helpmann invented a new walk-on part so that they could keep an eye on Claire. When they took over the 1948 Shakespeare season at Stratford-on-Avon, Claire went along...