Word: poisoner
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...they regard as repeated efforts by the War Office to abolish their national dress, worn by the Argyll and Sutherland, Gordon, Cameron and Sea forth Highlanders and the redoubtable Black Watch.* Scots now have to admit the War Office's contention that the kilt is poor protection against poison gas; that its pleats harbor cooties; that when wet it galls the knees, when icy cuts them, making the "Ladies from Hell" roll their stockings high, like U. S. college girls. But they deny the War Office contention that kilts take too much wool, and they insist that the kilt...
Bubbling Elspeth Huxley, photographer, big-game hunter, agriculturist and mystery writer (latest: The African Poison Murders), cousin-by-marriage of Aldous and Julian, told a Manhattan reporter how she had her personal devils exorcised by black tribal quacks in Kenya Colony, British East Africa: "There was a lot of mumbo-jumbo with a goat, for which I paid three shillings. The witch doctor chalked up my face and between my toes. I did as I was told until I was supposed to lick the intestines of a goat. I hired a substitute for a shilling, being assured that this wouldn...
...from being an enthusiastic inhabitant of fire, as the ancients believed, the salamander must be moist, dies if it is even thoroughly dried out. Though no fire-eater, the lizard-like little creature is, however, something of a devil. He secretes in his skin a milky poison which causes most of his potential enemies to leave him severely alone. This skin poison is thought to be harmless...
Last week a group of Stanford University scientists announced that they had found a far more virulent poison in a species of salamander, Triturus torosus, which is abundant in California. The venom occurs in the egg yolk, in embryos which have not finished eating the yolk, and in egg-carrying adult females. When some of this poison was injected into a cat, the cat lost muscular coordination, collapsed, went into convulsions, suffered respiratory paralysis, died in 20 minutes. Quantitative tests showed that one gram (1/28 oz.) of Triturus poison is enough to kill 75,000 mice or 600 monkeys...
Died. Roy Gardner, 56, onetime notorious train robber, since his release from Leavenworth in 1938 a film salesman, crime lecturer, author (Hellcatraz), exposition barker; by his own hand (poison gas of his own mixing); in San Francisco...