Word: poisons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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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...
...country is completely dry. Never is a drunken man seen; in no street car or subway hovers a whiskey breath; no idiotic gaiety can be found in our cafes; every one is serious; no one drinks nor even desires a drink, for all realize now what a fearful poison alcohol is, and without exception the nation rejoices in the profound conviction that wine is neither a food nor an excellent beverage, that the pleasant hours and the comradeship which it gave us were but hallucinations...
...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...