Word: poisoner
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...Wiley's most brilliant counterattack against the manufacturers was the formation of his "Poison Squad," twelve young men from his staff who at his command ate only adulterated foods. Their sufferings he reported with dramatic detail. The "Poison Squad" won him general public support. As a result unscrupulous manufacturers must be skillfully stealthy to put into their products boric acid, borax, salicylic acid, salicylates, sulphurous acid, sulphites, benzoic acid, benzoates (except traces), formaldehyde, copper sulphate, saltpeter...
...coup d'état, Parliament is closed, England put under martial law. The Lord Paramount wants a war and gets it, but it is more than he bargained for. In a desperate attempt to seize the privately-controlled laboratory where the world's most powerful poison gas is stored, the Lord Paramount, his lieutenants and England itself, are all blown to smithereens. Luckily it was all a dream. But, says Author Wells between the lines, it is a nightmare that might come true...
...equivalent of turning on the gas, after Elizabeth had perfunctorily married the Jew who thoughtfully died without consummating the marriage and who left a great deal of money, and after she had cozened Gerard (who loved her) into marrying Agatha (who loved Paul). The treachery disclosed, Paul takes poison, Elizabeth prepares to shoot herself. "A few more seconds of courage, and they would come out where flesh is dissolved, where souls are wed, where incest no longer roams...
Editorialists lauded Major Campbell's change from showily raiding clubs, nightclubs and hotels to doing "useful work" in the areas where liquor is not imported but is made from alcohol denatured or poisoned by the U. S. Government. In many a shop the agents bought drinks (two agents, though warned, went to bed with headaches) served directly from a can labelled "Denatured alcohol-Poison...
Dapper Mayor James John Walker, much exercised over the deaths in his city, cried: "First degree murder and the electric chair are too good for ['smoke' sellers]. If I had a club I would hit on the head myself any man who sold poison liquor, and I would not wait for a policeman. I said poisonous liquor. ... It is a violation of the Constitution to sell [any] liquor, but we might stagger through that...