Word: poisoner
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...injections of colloidal metallic arsenic. His good friend, Professor Eli Franklin Burton, University of Toronto physicist, had originated the preparation of colloidal arsenic. Putting the stuff into Mrs. R- F-'s veins was a risky business. Arsenic, used medicinally to improve the blood's condition, is a poison. The woman with cancer in her leg approved the risk. Three months later the broken bone mended itself. Today, a year & a half after beginning the colloidal arsenic treatment, "the patient is in good health, free from pain, and is carrying on her usual household duties...
...dead away. Rallying round, still other of her gentlemen friends prepare to remove the banker to a more discreet resting place, a somewhat shady private hospital on Riverside Drive. There, to the consternation of one & all, it is revealed that the financier died not of heart failure but from poison. If the banker had spent even more time away from home, it may be hinted, he would probably still be alive...
...students). He is one of the most learned men at Berkeley, and eminently practical. About ten years ago he became interested in curing iron deficiency in fruit trees by injecting certain liquids into the trunks. His technic has saved many a tree. Later he showed lumbermen how to poison trees destined for marine construction or telephone poles. The poisons repel molds, fungi, borers and other wood-destroying agents...
...Holmes and Nugent to keep the sympathy of the audience and maintain a nice, homey atmosphere. On this basis, the show is a complete success. In fact, its just a clean, action less, drama-less domestic comedy, and, as remarked before this is praise to some folks and poison to others...
...here calling. Did you hear all the footsteps pounding around upstairs when that phone rang? It's that way all the time they're just waiting for it. I don't see why you fellows bother to come up here, but one man's meat is another man's poison, so I guess it comes out all right...