Word: tonics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strychnine kills about three people each week in the U. S. Some take strychnine for suicide. Some use it for murder.* But the most frequent cause of strychnine poisoning Is the chocolate or sugar coated pill kept in the bathroom cabinet as a laxative or "tonic." Children eat the pills for candy, die in convulsions. In the current Journal of the A. M. A. the Indianapolis clinicians give specific instructions for intravenous administration of sodium amytal, sodium pentobarbital or phenobarbital sodium. They note, as have other investigators, that the antidotes themselves are poisonous in large doses. Specific antidote for their...
Last week the Empire found Chancellor Chamberlain's stand for payment tonic, found perfectly dignified his further statement that Britain will pursue at an appropriate time (perhaps not until after President-elect Roosevelt's inauguration) further negotiations with the U. S. looking to reduction by the U. S. of what Britain owes...
...game is a dose of tonic for the people that have spent their week within the four walls of office or study. Even playful old ladies are susceptible to this dose of medicine that is football. Many a good derby has been crushed under their antics of new spirit. There is nothing more interesting than the milling mob on the gridiron at the close of a game. This whole process is one of mob spirit being ventilated...
...dollar, is a real hearty laugh," declared Henry Hull, who plays the role of Henry Dewlip in "Spring-time for Henry," in a CRIMSON interview between the acts at the Wilbur Theatre last night. "I enjoy my part in this play immensely because the production is a kind of tonic that America needs. Our country has fallen into a state of morbid hysteria over the depression that we must overcome. The fun never flags in this skit, and the larger the number of Americans who can learn to laugh whole-heartedly again, the greater will be the chances of emerging...
...country. It is the misfortune of a soldier that his duty is the destruction of the property and lives of world neighbors. It is the pity of Peace that War stories must be trodded out of the cupboard to disturb the nerves of the world which need the tonic of good faith. Papen was a splendid soldier and is proving himself a good Chancellor, the Chancellor we want. He satisfies...