Search Details

Word: poisoner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Chaser Mr. Langdon is a wife-pecked husband, who is made to do the cooking and housecleaning. Morose, he drinks "poison" which turns out to be castor oil. To some, that is simply darling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 23, 1928 | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...unpatriotic propagandist. In education he is even more dangerous, for the young people of the U. S. are an impressionable lot. He might be given a business job if concern had no foreign trade and never touched a foreign bond. If he should become a laborer, he might poison union minds with European socialism. As a scientist he would have to be watched, for there is no telling what dastardly machines he might sell to the enemies of the U. S. Even as a barber, his chatting to customers might lead to the fermenting of the un-American ideas. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rhodes Scholars | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...shot in the heart in her bedroom with the lights turned on. Then, Ada, youngest and adopted Greene daughter, was shot in the back, but did not die. Then, Chester Greene was killed; then- but that would spoil the story. Anyway, all the Greenes hated each other like poison; they were forced to live together in the old homestead with their irascible mother, by the will of their father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Drawling Detective | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...even void of humor, the only thing that could possibly have excused its appearance in print, and contains only enough of official data to make it more insidiously poison to the uninitiated in its apparent effort to condemn the dog, the exhibitor and the bench show, and since the owners of the kennels you have listed are good sports and real lovers of the dog, you may be assured that they will feel the same about this article, uninteresting to the sportsman and misleading to the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

INTERFERENCE-In which poison is served as politely as a cocktail (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

Previous | 617 | 618 | 619 | 620 | 621 | 622 | 623 | 624 | 625 | 626 | 627 | 628 | 629 | 630 | 631 | 632 | 633 | 634 | 635 | 636 | 637 | Next