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...speaking of these and other documents, du Pont officials kept referring to what they called the "Poison Label," a special mark placed on secret documents in the company files that were to be read only by Senate committee investigators or du Pont directors. The "Poison Label" turned out to be a square rubber stamp that read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Men of Arms | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...death the right to take their own lives as the Greeks gave Socrates a bowl of hemlock. In the modern Nazi State the procedure recommended last week is for the German jailor to enter the cell of the condemned and say, "Here is a pistol and a bottle of poison. Take your choice." According to the Ministry of Justice, "Criminals of the fouler sort should not, of course, receive this privilege. They should be decapitated, as at present. The theory of permitting a man to carry out his own sentence is the logical fulfillment of the idea that the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hemlock & Pillory | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

Pausing to rest, the spider swayed too close to a free foreclaw, was quickly caught and held helpless. Thereafter for a while the battle was even. Each a prisoner of the other, neither could get into position to unleash the poison which would end the fight. On the fourth day the spider tore loose, but it cost her one leg, part of another. Spectators raised the odds to 20-to-1. Like a Gulliver bound with Lilliputian strands, the scorpion struggled until its forelegs were swollen and paralyzed. Finally in a burst of desperate frenzy it freed its stinger from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Snake, Spiders, Scorpion | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...that bites Claudette Colbert in this DeMille production is a real one. Studio officials expressed surprise when the director deviated so far from realism as to permit the extraction of its poison sac before it struck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: DeMille's 60th | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

...daughter of an obscure Lancashire actor. Her unfortunate mother trouped provincial music halls for years, finally died of cancer too. Three men committed suicide on Dolores' account. When she was a handsome overdeveloped child of 15 one John Wadham, secretary to the aristocratic Caroline, Lady Gordon Lennox, took poison. The next suicide was that of Lieut. Frank Amsden, her first husband. In 1929, Frederick Atkinson, a painter and writer of flamboyant verses, did away with himself after friends finally convinced him of Dolores' persistent infidelities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Death of Dolores | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

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