Word: poisoner
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...interest in the Depression's wage scale. At Rome, Prime Minister Mussolini, boastful of how all Europe had followed his policy of scaling wages down to meet retail prices, announced that, for Italy, a limit for such cuts had been reached "beyond which the antidote may become a poison" (see p. 19). In London, figures were collected which revealed that 1,500,000 British workers, including some of the most militant unions, had last month accepted deep pay cuts with quiet resignation. And in Washington, despite ominous news from his Department of Labor (see p. 17), President Hoover expressed...
...Chicago, Stephen and Thomas Hall, 21-year-old twins, incurably crippled with Friedreich's paralysis† for twelve years, sat in their two wheelchairs, drank two glasses of poison. They had planned suicide for six months. They were rushed to a hospital, the poison pumped from their stomachs. They were expected to live. But Friedreich's paralysis is incurable...
...there's plenty of space in this review and nothing much else to talk about. Miss Stanwyck is modern and Miss Stanwyck, though being old-fashioned enough to fall head over heels in love, as she so graphically describes the emotion, is modern enough to believe that marriage is poison to said emotion. So she goes away on weekends (that's where they get the title, that and a sly hint from the box-office.) But the hero, being a gentleman, finally says no, he cares too much to let it go on, so they get married, despite Miss Stanwyck...
...Hotly debated a bill introduced by the Scottish temperance M. P., Edwin Scrynigeour, to prohibit commercial liquor sales in Britain and provide that liquor sold for medicinal use must be labeled "Poison...
Cried shocked Conservative Lieut.-Colonel Sir William Wayland, as he moved rejection of the bill: "Just fancy a bottle of rare old crusted port labeled 'poison...