Word: geranium
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...sings neither well nor ill. Let specialists define her talent. The important thing is that she sings as a torch burns. She is alternately the geranium of the suburbs, the scar of crime, the lantern of the brothel and the whistle of the police. "Cocteau...
...nerve gas" like acetyl choline, one drop of which in liquid form will, if placed on a skin abrasion, quickly induce unconsciousness, followed later by no ill effects. Swiss sources last week said the Germans had experimented with such a gas - with a faint geranium odor - against which ordinary filter masks are useless...