Word: poisoner
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...ensure the secresy of such ceremonies, the Poro had another mask, the Gblo ze ge (see cut, right) The man wearing the Gblo ze ge mask had the task of killing any boy caught spying into the mysteries. Such a peeping Poro was first made insensible with poison in his nose and eyes, then seated on a smokeless fire. After he was properly roasted, he was consumed by all the zos (the local big shots) of the countryside called together for the occasion...
Family Album. In London, Angus Harper declared that he had laced the family butter with slug poison, just to "annoy" his in-laws. In Newhall, Calif., Mrs. Nettie M. Weismeyer said that one reason why she had shot her husband was that he used bad grammar...
...suffering because he won his young wife by deceit; he supervises the destruction of the old woman who might have betrayed him. The pastor's son (Preben Lerdorff) is suffering because he has fallen in love with his young stepmother. His sense of honor is strong enough to poison his love, but not as strong as the love itself. The young wife (Lisbeth Movin) is in the worst predicament of the three; though she suffers agonies of desire, neither conscience nor pity can touch her. The others are merely damaged; she is a lost soul, dying before the spectators...
...Poison. Roberto Rossellini's six slices of wartime life in Italy, the best of them even better than his Open City (TIME, April...
...Poison. Roberto Rossellini's six slices of wartime life in Italy, the best of them even better than his Open City (TIME, April...