Word: poison
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...clock this afternoon. Neither team will play with its full strength, but the contest promises to be a close one. Neither Whittemore nor Dean are in condition to play, and McVey will be put at shortstop. Hayes has been placed in the batting list, but is suffering from ivy poison, and there seems to be little chance that he will be able to play. Burgess will probably take his place unless Whittemore's ankle is improved sufficiently to allow his playing in the outfield...
...suddenly steps to the front, she commands our attention, holding us transfixed while present and claiming our thoughts while absent. She is no longer the degraded wife, worthy only of loathing, she struggles against her fate, is vanquished, but not without making the most heroic efforts to overcome the poison of her passion. Before we finish the play she has not only succeeded in interesting us, but she has won our pity and sympathy; nothing could be a greater tribute to the genius of Racine than this acknowledgment which every reader of the play must make...
...analyzed the oath, or obligation, taken by the students of medicine, in the time of Pericles. The candidate for graduation promised solemnly that he would be loyal in every way to his chosen profession, that he would abstain from all wrong and injustice, that he would not furnish poison to anyone soliciting it, that he would not lead astray anyone committed to his charge, but that he would pass his life and exercise his art in purity and holiness. The candidate further promised that whatever he should hear in the practice of his profession or not in connection with...
...control the local politics of Boston, and constitute an oligarchy far more dangerous to this common wealth than any man like Caesar or Napoleon ever will be. The open bar is the chief instrument of this ring in the government of Boston. If a supply of the fatal alcoholic poison must be kept somewhere, as many people assure us, let if be in miserable out-of-the-way houses on the side streets, not in attractive palaces, on the highway. Then I can feel that when I send my boy on an errand he will not be tempted to stop...
Hollis Street Theatre-Mary Shaw in A Drop of Poison...