Word: poisoner
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...immersed in pure carbon dioxide will be quickly deprived of the air necessary to sustain life, and will of course die. Immersion in pure water is a ''deadly poison" in this sense...
TIME gladly repairs such damage as may have been done by ambiguity: fumes of carbon monoxide (from autos) are a definite poison to the blood; fumes of carbon dioxide are fatal only as pure water can be fatal.-ED. Producing...
Died. Charles Courtney Julian, oil promoter, wanted in Oklahoma City on a charge of defrauding investors of $3,500,000; by his own hand (poison); in Shanghai. Canadian-born Promoter Julian won & lost a real estate fortune in California where later he formed Julian Petroleum Corp., a $40,000,000 producing and marketing organization. He left it shortly before it collapsed, formed a similar company in Oklahoma. When Oklahoma courts investigated him, he jumped a $25,000 bail bond, exiled himself in China where he died penniless...
...Stavisky with the salutation "Cher Monsieur et Bon Ami-", supposed to have been written by Henri Hurlaux, assistant prosecuting attorney of the Court of Appeal. White-chinned old Henri Chéron, Minister of Justice, promptly removed good Friend Hurlaux who struck an attitude and attempted to swallow poison. He was rushed to a hospital where he signed a statement swearing that he had never accepted a single sou from handsome Alex. Lawyers for Stavisky's principal agent, Secretary Gilbert Romanigno, are Raymond Hubert, one of the smartest pleaders in Paris, and a M. Pinganaud. Paris papers have hinted...
...guests (a college president, an instructor whom he has discharged, a politician, a banker, a journalist and assorted women) cannot find their host. Presently a voice in the radio informs them that the doors are charged with death-dealing electricity, that there are cocktails in the kitchen and poison on the mantelpiece, that they will all be lucky to get out alive. The oldest woman present commits suicide when the radio denounces her as a social parvenu. The banker kills himself by accident while trying to poison the rest of the company. Curiosity and alarm set others to bickering...