Word: poisonings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arsenic and Old Lace. Hilarious horror yarn about two sweet old ladies who flavor their wine with a wee drop of poison (TIME...
...York Post Columnist Earl Wilson: "That poem I couldn't go anywhere without. ... I ask Him for so much. I guess I keep Him scufflin'. . . . Oh, darling I used to be the kind of woman, if I was mad at you ... I had a look that was poison ivy. . . . But now ... it's eight, nine years since I asked...
...monks of the local monastery begged St. Benedict to become their abbot. But they were dissolute, and when he tried to discipline them, they tried to poison him. He returned to his cave. But disciples followed...
...noted a great thaw all along the line. In Boise, the 300 tickets for the Willkie luncheon sold in 20 minutes; in Seattle, Willkie shook 2,000 hands in 40 minutes. Party workers flocked to see and hear the candidate who, only the week before, was supposed to be poison...
...fantastic poison vaguely connected with South American Indians and detective novels" was Dr. Harold R. Griffith's first idea of curare (rhymes with safari). But in last week's Canadian Medical Association Journal, the Montreal doctor tells how he changed his mind, pioneered the use of curare to relax tense muscles during operations...