Word: valerianated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Valerian ("Val") O'Farrell, 58, private detective; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. He worked on such famed Manhattan cases as the shooting of Architect Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw, was counsel for Police Lieutenant Charles Becker who was electrocuted for the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal. His last job: investigator for Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt who is suing in a Manhattan Supreme Court for return of her daughter, Gloria...
...Valerian is a cheesy-smelling sedative prepared from an herb root. Last year chemists compounded it with zinc or ammonia, loaded the mixture with ether, sealed it in glass thermos bottles. About five months ago Chicago thugs, hired by racketeering labor unionists, began smashing such thermos bottles inside factories and showrooms. When the highly volatile ether spreads through the room, bearing molecules of the valerian compound, the compound penetrates carpets, garments, walls, floors. Overwhelming is its lasting stench...
...high, sharp smell of the ammonia-valerian compound is bad enough. Far worse is the low, heavy, dirty odor of the zinc-valeric bomb, comparable only to the concentrated essence of a marching army's foot-smell...
...paying members of a "dude" adventure cruise, scheduled to leave Long Beach, Calif, for the South Seas', prematurely got a melodramatic money's-worth while their boat was still tied to the dock. The trip's impresario, a middle-aged professional soldier-of-for-tune named Valerian Johannes Tieczynski, alias Captain Walter Wanderwell, fantastically paid for his clients' thrill with his life...
Second Piatiletka. Since last summer the Caspian (State Planning Commission) has been studying, planning, replanning a program for the years 1933-37. Last week on the eighth anniversary of the death of Bolshevism's sainted Lenin, its work was done. Author of the plan was Gosplan Chairman Valerian Kuybyshev, onetime chairman of the Supreme Eco-omic Council, who looks like an Italian tenor. Sang...