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Word: poisoning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...puppets sat down to a gala banquet last week at the Japanese Consulate General at Nanking in honor of Japanese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Tomesaburo Shimizu. The banquet began with a toast in wine. It ended when all the guests suddenly went under the table from a little poison slipped into the wine by "Chinese enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Banquet | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...verse group was entertained by Dorothy Parker with a speech called Sophisticated Verse, and the hell with it. A fiction group heard a dozen speeches, ranging from talks on how to worm social-conscious fiction into pulp magazines to Dashiell Hammett's warning that Hollywood techniques are poison to novelists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Writers' Congress | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Legislature to pass an antispitting law. He also forced the Philadelphia transit company to replace dirty plush streetcar seats with clean, bare benches. In 1919, during a local row over politics in the street-cleaning system, he raised a dust storm with his carpet-beating outburst: "Dust is pulverized poison and we have seen in Filthadelphia too much drifting into damned deferential silences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pulverized Poison | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Last week Dr. Anders himself was on the carpet, and the reason was a pulverized poison called morphine. By regulation of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, a physician may not supply morphine to a known addict. But for two years Dr. Anders has been feeding heroic doses of morphine to addict Fred Barrick, a busy Philadelphia insurance agent. Federal agents warned Dr. Anders three times to cut off Fred Barrick's supply. Three times he denounced them for "intruding upon the relation between a doctor and his patients." Finally the agents caught Dr. Anders off base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pulverized Poison | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...story, as told by a simple Japanese infantryman in letters to his family, has a naive charm until readers recall that "Ashihei Hino" is really Katsunori Tamai, known to a highbrow handful of Japanese readers for his The Warship on the Mountain, The Fish with Poison, for which in the past two years he has won Japan's highest Akutagawa Prize for literature. Translater is pacifist Birth-Controller Baroness Shidzué Ishimoto, who translated the book out of "deep devotion to my country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wartime Diet | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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