Word: poisoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Memorial Hall dining room. During the noon meal on November 14, 1902, she appeared in the gallery where visitors came to "watch the animals eat"--and was immediately recognized with cheers and jeers from the floor below. She shouted, "Boys! Don't eat that infernal stuff, it's poison," and started down the stairs to sell her famous nickel-plated hatchets. The students quickly crowded around her, offering cigarettes and cigars which she struck to the floor with indignation. When the uproarious mob had swept her into Sanders Theatre, she attempted to speak, but shouts and singing drowned...
...butane tanks were about to blow up and poison gases would be released. Planeloads of Plasma. An emergency hospital was set up in the City Hall as the Red Cross, Salvation Army, doctors, nurses, Texas Rangers with pearl-handled revolvers, planeloads of plasma and mobile kitchens began to arrive. The windowless high school gymnasium was swept clean-it would do for a morgue while the embalmers worked for hours, foot-deep in blood in the McGar garage. Now & again, they turned their backs on the corpses and slugged down hot coffee...
...Gropius to his commanding position. Colleagues may gain his grasp of industrial civilization's new demands upon the architect, but they are not likely to catch up to the stride of his dynamic evolving personal philosophy. To the older elements in the profession everything he stands for is still poison: these are men who are aware that the New Architecture steadily gains ground but who are doggedly wed to pat formulas and the Roman column...
Even. In Kankakee, Ill., Doris Keller dramatically tried to get even with her husband for blackening her eye, succeeded only in getting sick when her solid base of beers neutralized the poison she swallowed...
...mixed incarnation of Hearst, McCormick and Rasputin. He sends little Harry Smith to Moscow with orders to write a book on ten reasons why the Russians want war. However, relates Hero Smith: "In Russia I became ashamed of myself-of all us people who dish up poison to Americans with their breakfast every morning." Result: Smith returns with a book on ten reasons why the Russians don't want war, and is promptly fired. On top of that, his pretty wife (played by Valentina Serova, Playwright Simonov's wife) prepares to leave him in a climactic scene...