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Captain Phillips in his first lectures traced the development of poison gas in warfare from Biblical times to the present day, and in his lecture yesterday he dealt mainly with the protective methods that have been taken in order to counteract the effects of the various types of poison...
...Poison gases have their value in peace times," said Captain Phillips. "There is one case of which I know when five sheriffs checked 3,000 striking miners, who intended to burn the colleries, just by liberating tear gas, thrown from hand grenades...
Presenting some astounding facts regarding the potentiality of poison gas in warfare, Captain Thomas Phillips, chemical warfare officer of the First Corps Area of the United States Army, delivered his first lecture before the first year men in the University...
...series of disillusionments, in chance meetings with street- walkers, bums, financiers. At one point he tries a bottle of rat poison, but finds in it not oblivion but a stomach ache. The girl is more successful in her choice of poisons, and dies on his hands-finding some satisfaction in the reflection that she dies clean. He is unfortunately jailed; and is visited by his father, who tries unsuccessfully to bring him back to Iowa. The play ends up with an astounding nightmare, in the course of which all the minor characters dance about him, tempting or mocking...
...Venetian ghetto of the Merchant of Venice, with every stick and stone and human being arranged with indefatigable precision by Belasco, king of realists. The spectator never can quite persuade himself that he is peeking through a chink in the fourth wall of the room, hiding behind a poison ivy vine in the woods, or bobbing about behind a wave on the ocean...