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...summer school who is taking a course in toxology a la Boston Record. She knows all about the Detroit negro who in 1921 was apprehended after having killed eight men by cyanide. He would sit opposite his victim in a restaurant, unfold his paper, and just drop a pill into their coffee. Incidentally, the girl is taking ten to one odds that Mrs. Costello is acquitted...
...comes from hard-bitten Yorkshire. The combination, as readers of her novels will recognize, is not one that makes for softness or cares about charm. Good if somewhat angrily honest, her stories are apt to be bitter to palates accustomed to a sugaring of the pill. In No Time Like the Present, half autobiography and half indictment of a civilization that returns to war like a dog to its vomit, there is less sugaring than ever, more anger than usual, and the same hard honesty as always...
...West, joined the gold rush to the Black Hills. He had so many irons in the fire he was always hoping one would get hot, but it never did. Meanwhile his favorite sister Catherine died, Anne and Hortense married failures, Aaron got greyer and stingier. Joe's bitterest pill was to watch his youngest brother David, a hypocritical prig, become the only financial success in the family. Joe's letters home were optimistic to the last, but long before the end he found himself a settled failure, saddled with a virago wife, threatened more & more by the insanity...
...pulpit. Now William C. Sowell has given him a whole magazine. In the first (March) issue of The Michigan Sportsman Editor Van Coevering foresees Depression ending with "America's mills again . . . operating at feverish heat, fiendish efficiency." Then men & women, if they are not to be reduced to "pill-fed automatons," will need escape to woods and lakes. His program: Co-operation between sportsman and farmer, a united front behind the formulation of sound State water, wildlife, tourist & resort policies...
Strychnine kills about three people each week in the U. S. Some take strychnine for suicide. Some use it for murder.* But the most frequent cause of strychnine poisoning Is the chocolate or sugar coated pill kept in the bathroom cabinet as a laxative or "tonic." Children eat the pills for candy, die in convulsions. In the current Journal of the A. M. A. the Indianapolis clinicians give specific instructions for intravenous administration of sodium amytal, sodium pentobarbital or phenobarbital sodium. They note, as have other investigators, that the antidotes themselves are poisonous in large doses. Specific antidote for their...