Word: poisoner
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...once. Rang Tang unfortunately starts off with a plot about two dusky Harlemites who fly to Africa for diamonds. Unfortunately, because, although their escapades in the jungle provide opportunity for skits at least a thousand times better than those with which the two comedians are equipped, plot coherence is poison to African revues. They, like jazz, should be utterly lawless and naive. If the show is still in existence, however, theatregoers might do well to give it an evening for the sake of the male & hotfoot chorus...
Australia was being invaded by a fleet of hostile airplanes, said Station 5-CL. The planes had just been sighted, pouncing and swooping in from the North. A few moments later the station told that the invading air navy was dropping poison gas bombs, flame throwers, and showers of poisoned darts. For ten minutes the vision of horror and destruction was conjured up with more and more terrifying realism. Then Station 5-CL blandly announced that there was not one word of truth in its "program," which had merely been put on "because of complaints that the usual features offered...
...death of Student John Harper, 21, resulting from poison gin, caused the University of Chicago to announce that it was forced to employ a private staff of Prohibition agents, since the regular Federal officials did not give the campus sufficient protection...
...modernize the statement and to make it true to the present day would have to put it something like this: "The typewriter is mightier than poison gas." The facts which this illustrates are only too true. The art of writing is fast becoming a lost art in our modern civilization; while the days when the sword was regarded as the symbol of battle have even more completely disappeared...
Cosmetics. "The cosmetic business has been a perfectly reputable business, but in the absence of a law controlling it [the Pure Food & Drug Act is not specific enough] a number of scamps have crept into the business." Some hair dyes irritate the skin dangerously; others contain poisonous lead. Some freckle removers contain ammoniated mercury, a caustic poison that eats the skin. If a substance is powerful enough to dissolve hair, it is powerful enough to dissolve skin. Using the x-ray to remove hair may cause cancer. The A. M. A. is seeking laws to "forbid the sale of certain...