Word: poisoner
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...Despite the numerous species of poisonous snakes in North and South America, there is now an antivenin for every kind of snake poison in the western hemisphere," stated Dr. Afranio do Amaral, noted ophiologist and director of the Instituto Butantan at Sao Paulo, Brazil, in an interview yesterday...
Last week the man at present most active in the world for snake poison research debarked at Manhattan. He was Dr. Afranio do Amaral, the soft-voiced suave herpetologist. He came from Brazil† where he is director of the Institute Sorotherapico at Butantan, State of Sao Paulo. His mission was to give a talk or two at Harvard's School of Public Health, where he is formally a lecturer, and to confer with Mulford's President Milton Campbell, his good friend and supporter. Dr. do Amaral is consulting director of Mulford's Antivenin Institute of America...
...enemy's) face. A drop of its venom blinds the eyes. Dr. Monaelesser hoped that a drop properly treated might be beneficial in epilepsy, nervous disease of obscure causes. So the two learned men tried to make the poor venomous fool angry and despatch his poison at a piece of glass. Perhaps wiser than most snakes, perhaps as lazy as most, the cobra spewed forth only a thin and useless spray. The two wise men felt foolish...
...indicted 91 poultry racketeers who had maintained a monopoly on the distribution of live fowl by persecuting retailers who refused to join a ring quaintly called "Greater New York Live Poultry Chamber of Commerce." The retailers were unable to get chickens for their markets, or only to get inferior, poisoned poultry. Their homes and shops were destroyed by bombs; their markets burned or polluted by poison gas. Their truck drivers were slugged; the tires of their trucks sliced...
...Lunacharsky). The professor is expelled from his post, after the Christians "frame" him in such fashion as to make it appear that he is a pervert. Reduced to penury, the professor's wife is seduced by the man who framed him; and this "Holy Devil" then proceeds to poison...