Word: poisoner
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However, as we have seen in a communication in the CRIMSON of October 15, the reformers are already fighting one of the evils which must be uprooted to permit out quest of happiness. For the country is now learning that tobacco is a vile poison, a "rather unnecessary and not universally worshipped vegetable." The W. C. T. U. will therefore lose no time in plucking the "weed" from the garden of bliss which will be ours when the enterprise will have been successful...
...what is the meaning of the recent nation-wide movement for constitutional prohibition? Is "personal liberty" to poison one's self by slow degrees recognized by either the law of the nation or public opinion? Is a man at liberty to use solutions of Paris green, arsenic, cyanide of potassium and other poisons, as beverages? Why should attractive solutions of alcohol, a slower but no less genuine poison than those mentioned, be sold and quaffed and dignified by custom and tradition as promoting good fellowship? Why in the name of common sense, should we not drink laudanum, "blue vitriol," dilute...
Lieutenant Herbert Frederick Engelbrecht A.M. '18 died from poison gas at the Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C., on December 3, 1918. He had been on duty at the American University Experimental Station. Engelbrecht was inducted June 28, 1918, and received his commission in October...
...after another, our old acquaintances of the Propaganda are turning up in Germany, where their heroic but abortive efforts to poison the public mind in America have won them fame and preferment under every system of government. Bernstorff is a spared monument of the imperial regime, trusted by the Ebert government; so is Dernburg; and now we read that Dr. Albert, long the financial officer of the propaganda in this country, the feeder and sustainer of all the reptiles, big and little, has been appointed by the Ebert government as under-Secretary of State and given the direction...
Lincoln died because the abnormal mind of J. Wilkes Booth was persuaded he was a tyrant. McKinley was stretched on his bier because Czolgosz believed what yellow journalists told him. Clemenceau is on a bed of pain because a man was stimulated into action by poison distilled from the false charge that the great peacemaker was an imperialistic friend...