Word: poisoner
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...present and the general Anglican Assembly were worked up to loud and prolonged cheering by the Bishop of Durham. "Jews are just as mixed a race as the Germans; they could hardly be more!" cried this Lord Spiritual. "This nonsense about 'race'-as if there were some poison in the ancestry of Judaism which must be guarded against- is sheer hallucination. It is preposterous! . . . We loathe and detest this attitude obtaining in Germany and protest...
Investigation disclosed that Merchant Rosenthal had bought his soda by the barrel from one Nick Manno, who had salvaged it from broken Arm & Hammer brand packages. In two weeks bargain-hunting housewives had snapped up 800 lb. Examination showed no traces of poison in other broken Arm & Hammer packages, thus indicating that Rosenthal's soda had been contaminated during or since salvage. A chemist reported that it could hardly have been an accident, because the poisons and soda were too thoroughly mixed...
...Natchez, Miss, three members of Herbert Reed's family were hospitalized and two suffered at home after a two-month diet of lead arsenate. Bought for flower spray and left on a kitchen shelf, the poison had been tracked into the family's food and dishes by roaches and bugs...
...damages. Declared Chief Examiner Gonzales last week: "If [the verdict] goes through we might as well shut up shop. If medical examiners and coroners are going to be handicapped by the refusal of relatives to permit an autopsy, we'll be in a pretty situation. A brother might poison a sister and prevent us from determining the cause of death by refusing to permit an autopsy...
...Took a poison pill...