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Word: vial (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reading this "practical anthology of scathing remarks" is somewhat like sampling a vial of concentrated formic acid: only professional scorpions or the very insensitive will care for more than small sips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Win Enemies | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...keeping as many guilty men away from it as he can until reformed by the example of a noble younger brother. High point in the picture, as it was in legend the low point in the career of Lawyer Fallon, is a scene in which he tosses off a vial of poison before the jury to show how harmless the State's evidence is, hurries out of the courtroom after the acquittal to get his stomach pumped. One remarkable feature of The Man Who Talked Too Much was a suggestion by Warner's publicity department to theatre owners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 15, 1940 | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

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