Word: poisoning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Monnier. The 21-year-old wife of a rich but devout sexagenarian, Sophie had large, black, red-rimmed eyes. When Gabriel eloped with her, his head was declared forfeit, for rape. Yet when she was captured he returned to her side just in time to prevent her taking the poison he knew she always carried with her. After four years in separate cells he stole to her one night, to find the long separation had made her a stranger, convent-grey and dull, while for him, a man, the four years' con- finement among books had served to unshackle...
...propaganda sheet called the Daily Ananias was rained down upon the Blue Forces. To break enemy morale, it stated: "Blues Poison More Wells," "Prisoners Surrender to Reds Voluntarily," "Blues Fear Red Bayonets," "Mutinous Blue Soldiers Hang Colonel...
...resides in the lower corner of the right lung of His Majesty George V. People all over the world who have ever had to have their pleural cavities drained following pleural pneumonia are vividly conscious that a channel was cut into His Majesty's chest to let the poison drain out. Fortnight ago six royal physicians descried and decided that the royal abscess was not draining properly. They announced that they would have to operate again. To calm a worried public, Court officials quickly declared that the operation would be comparatively minor...
...best mouse-trap maker, Mr. Sarnoff does not agree. Having seen and exploited many an invention, he says: "While the sylvan mouse-trap maker is waiting for customers and his energetic competitor is out on the main road, a third man will come along with a virulent poison which is death on mice and there will be no longer any demand for mouse-traps." Pointing to the manner in which phonograph makers adapted their products to the radio, he says: "The pre-radio phonograph is absolutely dead. . . . The modern phonograph industry is alive and flourishing. . . . They [the phonograph makers...
...Military aeroplanes, from Selfridge Field, Mich., and other military airports, . . . photographed, mapped and plotted for military purposes, practically every foot of the peninsula of Ontario and the settled portions of Quebec. . . . "Andrew Mellen [sic], Treasurere of the United States [sic], ... is manufacturing and has in storage terrific supplies of poison and irritating gases for military purposes. . . . "Naval armament for the immediate conversions of steel freighters in the Great Lakes into ships of war is in storage in Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and Duluth. . . . Inordinate supplies of uniforms . . . are in storage in the military posts of the United States Army...