Word: poisoner
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...sure that cinchophen was primarily responsible for many deaths directly due to yellow atrophy of the liver. This matter was thrashed out last May during the convention of the American Medical Association. There Drs. Walter Lincoln Palmer and Paul Silas Woodall presented conclusive evidence that, although cinchophen does not poison all users, there is no way of telling whose liver it may attack or when it begins its deadly work. Said their report, released last week: "The very earliest symptoms may be only a signal, already too late, that the steady march of death has begun. . . . There is no safe...
...pair proceeded to a hotel where Father Coughlin found occasion to declare that a choice between Presidential Nominees Roosevelt and Landon was a choice "between carbolic acid and rat poison...
...issuing from them formed a continuous sheet. It was thus that, as from the end of January 1936, soldiers, women, children, cattle, rivers, lakes and pastures were drenched continually with this deadly rain. In order to kill off systematically all living creatures and in order more surely to poison the waters and pastures, the Italian command made its aircraft pass over & over again. . . . "These fearful tactics succeeded. Men and animals succumbed...
...Scutari, Flo and her charges sweep the dirty corridors, poison the rats, reduce the death rate from 42% to 2%. Ably publicized by the London Times correspondent (Ian Hunter), their efforts infuriate the chief physician (Donald Crisp) who considers female nursing a sin & a shame. Flo goes to the front hospital at Balaklava, catches cholera, gets back to Scutari to find most of her good work undone. She does it over again, returns to London, gets from Queen Victoria a brooch and the recognition which has been her aim: that women are worthy to be wartime nurses and that nursing...
...Stanley Baldwin had stopped with intuitive wisdom. Mourned disgusted Arthur Greenwood for the Labor Party: "During the whole of this debate there has been not a single word of sympathy for a broken nation [Ethiopia], no word of condemnation for the Power [Italy] which deliberately organized the use of poison...