Word: poisoner
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...wouldn't be so silly as to cancel my subscription, probably because I'm Scotch; but if you must be funny, let's have a joke page and let the rest be facts. There's too much poison-pen stuff from Dorothy Parker and Pegler, without your taking a hand...
...belt of poison night where death strikes at dusk is being studied by Marshall Hertig, assistant professor of medical entomology new in the service of the Peruvian government...
...English by blue-penciling everything he could not understand. Deleting the word "dyestuffs" from a list of products Russia could take from Germany, he explained: "Foodstuffs mean stuff for food and dyestuffs mean stuff for dying. I am not going to pass an insinuation that the Soviets will import poison gases from Germany." "Secretaryship of the Comintern" was suppressed on the ground that the Comintern had no Navy. A reference to the "Baltic Division of the Foreign Office" was censored because "there are no Soviet troops in the Baltic now-not even a battalion, let alone a division...
...rose is as true as the cabbage!", young Romantics were shattering the classical drama. Plays like Hugo's Hernani, Dumas' Antony, Poet de Vigny's Chatterton ravished the intellectuals with lines like "Death to society; Death to reaction!", while white-robed heroines drank poison and bearded young heroes swung daggers...
...medical detectives: testy, sharp-eyed Dr. William Scott Wadsworth. During his 41 years as coroner's physician. Dr. Wadsworth, known to reporters as "Waddie," has examined 10,094 bodies. He has a tremendous assortment of cartridges (1,500 of 40 different makes), 360,000 filing cards on poison (largest collection in the world), razors and knives, plaster casts of teeth, hanks of hair, chunks of skull perforated with bullet holes. In his office are a homemade rifle range, charts spattered with red ink to mark the splash of blood, hundreds of machines to weigh, measure, test and sight...