Word: poisoner
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...Bumke as a 'good' German with whom we could deal in confidence." [Author Stout also said: "In the anatomy of the German rattlesnake, the rantings of Hitler are merely the rattle; it is men like Bumke . . . who share their views and their disease, that carry the deadly poison of Pan-Germanism...
...noted a great thaw all along the line. In Boise, the 300 tickets for the Willkie luncheon sold in 20 minutes; in Seattle, Willkie shook 2,000 hands in 40 minutes. Party workers flocked to see and hear the candidate who, only the week before, was supposed to be poison...
...Hitler and his henchmen to power, had said to them: "All right, gentlemen, let us proceed under God." Now, on the anniversary, Hitler was not a man to be laughed at, nor a foe to be scorned. All that he had to say about "the Red Menace" was familiar poison. But, gripped in the autointoxication of despair, he still knew how to seize his German listeners' hearts...
...After. Of the three great surprise weapons of World War I-Britain's tanks, Germany's Big Berthas and poison gas-none played a decisive part in the outcome. Gas would have been no surprise to the Spartans, who used sulfur fumes in the siege of Plataea (428 B.C.) and lost the battle...
...smoothly decanted. Skimpy scenes are saved by funny gags and shrewd "business." (When the Hollywood producer gets into a tantrum on the phone he stops, ceremoniously hands his secretary the receiver, snaps: "Hang up on him.") As Paula, Actress Gordon purrs, shrugs, grimaces, ladles out her syrup, squirts her poison with enormous verve. George S. Kaufman directs traffic with his expert eye for preventing the wrong kind of snarl and encouraging the right kind of collision...