Word: hemlock
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After a week the deer had grown accustomed to being gaped at, was eating the sweet corn and drinking the water lowered daily from the cliff, sleeping on a bale of hay. Hemlock branches and moss were strewn across the five-foot-wide plank bridge, a trail of salt sprinkled across it as a lure. Park officials were deluged with rescue suggestions. One man wanted to put an opiate in the deer's water. Another suggested a jacklight to lure the buck across the bridge at night. A farmer offered to bring a flock of sheep, place them reassuringly...
...modern Athens is Madison, Wis.; nor is the University of Wisconsin's Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn a Socratic humbler for whom the hemlock cup awaits. But Wisconsin may look at Greece. To do so it opened in 1927 an Experimental College, whose 100-odd students wore Athenian owls on their blazers, gathered in earnest groups to study, first, the Greece of Pericles' Age, then America of the last century. Viewing the two whole, the students might learn to think and live wisely against their contemporary background. So thought Dr. Meiklejohn. To his insurgent College came farm-boys (of native and foreign...
...place the haft of their swords on the ground and fall upon the upturned point. Gaius Petronius cut his wrists before company. Nero's other exquisites got into warm baths before they cut theirs. The warm water was to prevent the final chill of death. The Greeks drank hemlock. Chinese spite their neighbors by drowning themselves in the neighbors' wells. Other Chinese methods: over-smoking opium, sucking in a sheet of gold leaf to clog the windpipe...
...same mood of admiration, the story which was incorporated in perhaps the finest of Plato's dialogs-how Socrates, imprisoned after an unfair trial in which his sarcasm frightened but antagonized his judges, met death calmly, almost gaily. His illustration showed Socrates reaching for a cup of hemlock with one hand and pointing toward an ungracious sky with the other, while eight of his disciples, in attitudes of profound dejection, surrounded the couch on which he had composed himself for his final and most brilliant argument. A picture which, to an age which worshipped stoicism, had the emotional value...
...Government is negotiating for $10,000,000 worth of Alaskan spruce and hemlock for newsprint manufacture, a stimulant to pulpsters' interest in that territory. The U. S. now annually imports about 100,000 tons of newsprint, duty free, from Germany, Finland, Sweden, Norway. This amount is, however, negligible in the annual consumption of newsprint in the U. S., estimated (1928) at 3,600,000 tons...