Word: poisoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other outsiders, including Russia's poison-penned Ilya Ehrenburg, had toured the land of cotton in search of sensation. But Sprigle had "crossed over" to see it through the Negro's eyes. Last week, in his own paper and 13 others (none of them south of what he had learned to call the "Smith & Wesson" line), Sprigle began telling what he saw "In the Land of Jim Crow." As an account of man's inhumanity to man-and man's capacity for enduring it-his series made Gentleman's Agreement seem gentlemanly indeed...
Sentimental humanists (who do not believe in either saints or sinners) would say: Scobie was a "sinner," yes. But might not his sins have been purged by an earthly purgatory of suffering? And did he not try to repent the final sin of all? When the poison he had swallowed brought a great cloud down over the room, Scobie was trying to make an Act of Contrition. And just before his body thudded to the floor, he managed to say aloud, "Dear God, I love...
...Irondale, Mo., Scout Executive Hugh Lake, confident that he was immune to poison ivy, blithely scrubbed his face with it, awoke next day scratching his legs...
...instead of a simple distinction between premeditation and impulse, the amendment set up some more subtle definitions. It was first-degree murder if connected with robbery, burglary, rape, sex offenses, the death of a policeman or prison guard, the use of explosives. Repeated use of a slow poison, such as arsenic, would be a capital offense; but a single, lethal dose of prussic acid would be only second-degree murder...
...Poison. Roberto Rossellini's six slices of wartime life in Italy, the best of them even better than his Open City (TIME, April...