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Cacodyl isocyanide, new, vicious compound of poisonous cyanogen, kills instantly. It would, he commented with juggernaut impassivity, "destroy armies as a man might snuff out a candle. . . . War, if it comes again, and is to be deadly, will never again be fought with shot & shell. It can't be, for it is too much cheaper to destroy life wholesale with this new gas. It may be manufactured at the rate of thousands of tons a day and it costs much less than powder & cannon, yet it will destroy armies more thoroughly, more effectively, and more cheaply...
...proceeded to Arlington Centre then known as the Village of Menotomy. The return of the British was over the same route. The troops which were able to cross Charles River at the foot of what is now Boylston Street owing to the negligence of the patriots, who failed to destroy the timbers of the bridge after removing them, was the relief column led by Lord Percy, the arrival of which at Lexington saved the British from being wiped out. This relief came as a result of the request of Major Pitcairn when he discovered at Lexington by the presence...
...doing with Lincoln as Rupert Hughes did to Washington, he not only is far from the truth, but he is as ridiculous as one hastening to protect the Washington monument from being assaulted with a fly-swatter. If he can read into that speech an anarchistic attempt to destroy or bring under contempt an institution in our history and language, he has a surprisingly tabloid mind for one who would seem to be painfully Bostonian...
...Raskob replied by releasing the "red hot stuff." He put on display in Manhattan a collection of anti-Catholic propaganda, including a quotation from Republican Governor Flem D. Sampson of Kentucky that Smith would "destroy the churches and schools...
...MURDER PROTESTANTS AND DESTROY AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IS THE OATH BINDING ROMAN CATHOLICS There was also a poem, entitled "Alcohol Smith's Platform," of which this verse was typical...