Word: poisoner
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...weekly meeting was converted into a Beer Club. Last week they published their report and sadly blew the froth off a final meeting. Seventeen months of effort could produce no authoritative figures later than 1931, when the world spent about $6,000,000,000 for guns, warships, tanks, poison gas, airplanes, bombs and bullets of every variety. And even for that year many small nations would submit no complete documentation of their military expenses. A full meeting of the entire Disarmament Conference is called for the end of May, but the beer-drinking technicians knew last week that disarmament...
...police pounced on the sublieutenant, then began picking plotters out of the army like raisins out of a cake. They soon had 120 army officers and civilians ranging from General Schmidt of the poison gas department, a handful of colonels, a truckload of captains, down to a group of students who were supposed to start demonstrations in the street as soon as the assassinating had properly begun. Last week Rumania lay paralyzed by its worst assassination scare to date. The Government clapped on an iron censorship, pooh-poohed "a thing which usually should be regarded as nothing more than mere...
Once upon a time there was the now defunct Kex Club of Mt. Auburn Street. "Kex", they say, is Greek for "Poison Hemlock." Some learned member of the club, knowing that Kex meant Hemlock had a pine cone engraved upon the insignia; but, alas, pines and hemlocks are two different things, a fact well known to all New Englanders, but not to the Kex Club. This sad error, however, was soon to be transcended. The Kex of the ancient Greeks was not a member of the gymnospermous order Coniferales; it is, rather, a member of the dicotyledonous family, Umbelliferae...
...always stood for the fundamental principles of the right of free speech and the toleration of all beliefs." In a letter to the Harvard Crimson a Jew replied, "Hanfstaengl is the representative of a government which considers the intellectuals the dirt of the earth and free speech a rank poison." From Boston and Manhattan prominent alumni wired their protests to Government officials in Washington...
...candles. They gave me eight candles during the last year of my incarceration. I lit the candles only to test the food, which I prepared myself, by thrusting a silver knife into the viands. Sometimes as often as twice a week the knife became stained-evidence of poison! If it appeared that nothing contained poison, I then would dress for dinner...