Word: poisonings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bombing of Governor's summer home, bombing of post office, attempted poison plot on Governor Robert H. Gore and family...
...other hand, hated coffee SO deeply that when Harry (Tramping on Life) Kemp was about to move out with Sinclair's first wife, the aggrieved husband, according to Kemp, found her percolator and thrust it upon her lover, saying:"You can take this to your goddess, this poison machine, and lay it on her altar." Little wonder, then, that the U.S. public was in an uproar last week over coffee...
...Lucrezia Borgia? To the incurable readers of melodrama and Sunday supplements, a woman of glowing and undimmed evil, literally the great femme fatale (usually poison) of the Italian Renaissance.* To modern historians, who have been quietly rehabilitating her, Lucrezia was a good deal less lurid but still deplorable: a woman who probably poisoned no soup herself but weakly watched the other Borgias doing such things...
Instead of calling for the destruction of the world's stock piles of nuclear weapons, as they have always done in the past, the Russians now advocate an agreement similar to the Geneva convention's on poison gas and chemicals: the major powers, while continuing to produce atomic bombs, would pledge to use them only in retaliation against an unprovoked attack by an enemy...
...Philadelphia, John F. O'Hara, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, wrote in a pastoral letter: "In effect the Supreme Court has ruled that the states may label as poison only what affects the body, not that which can destroy the soul...