Word: poisoner
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...last crime was to poison an elderly couple with whom she had lived, after stealing their entire savings. On three occasions she volunteered to nurse sick women friends, whose deaths she caused by introducing poison into the drugs prescribed for them by their physicians. Her first and most revolting murder was accomplished when she poisoned her fiance, "for the pleasure of watching his death agony," and celebrated over his corpse the dread "Mass of Satan." It was the latter which made France shiver...
...British laboratory a white-haired savant bent, over a microscope, lifted a sad, tired face to the glare of a high-powered electric lamp, sighed. He plunged his hands deep into his dressing-gown pockets, sighed again. He was Dr. Faust, despondent, wanting to die, preparing the poison. In came an uninvited guest, no conventional red-tighted devil, but Monsieur Mephistopheles, sleek, well-groomed, bemonocled, his only tail the double portion of conventional evening dress...
...TIME as a good paper for boys and girls to read, you dig up an old ditty that Bismark's sister used to sing in which Satan swears (TIME, Feb. 22, p. 11) and now (TIME, March 29, p. 38) you allow an "adder" to leave a shot of poison in the form of a witty, unforgettable coined word where youth will ran into it head...
Sirs: My subscription to TIME was sent in entirely on the theory of avoiding the poison propaganda of our daily press. I presume that in the main you must depend upon some of the same news agencies ; but I had hoped that misstatements and garbled news would be largely omitted or carefully compared with other agencies to the end that facts would be the result...
...minute seed and grows in long chains, like a string of beads. It gains entrance to the human body usually by some abrasion, sometimes by way of the tonsils. Then it spreads first through the lymphatic system, later through the blood to every part. It gives off a toxin (poison) which diffuses through the system even more quickly than the germ itself. The peculiar effect of the streptococci pyogenes is to cause fever, although in some cases, especially in wounds, it forms pus. If they get into the lungs by way of the blood they clog the bronchioles, the tiny...