Word: poison
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...materialistic university which trained a scholar to take both the Graven and the Ireland in England--will violently resent that thought, but you will live and eat and move and have your being in a world dominated by that thought. Some of you will probably succumb to the poison...
...devotees have informed neither themselves nor the public as to the essential facts of community needs and government results. Checks and panaceas of every description have been tried--everything but a constant light; everything but consecutive, cumulative publicity of essential facts. . . . No corrupt or incompetent official will put poison in a baby's milk, pile garbage on his neighbor's doorstep, put his hands in his neighbor's pocket, when his neighbor is looking...
...during recitations is so stale that long before the end of the hour the classes become drowsy and uncomfortable. This is rarely the fault of inadequate ventilation, but is in most cases due to indifference on the part of undergraduates. Men who despise personal uncleanliness will sit in a poisonous atmosphere and watch unconcerned some enemy of the race cut off all hope by fastening down the last window. In winter the desire for warm air, however thick it may be, has a superficial excuse, but in mild weather only the confirmed poison-inhaler can excuse the condition of many...
...Poison Island," by A. T. Quiller-Couch...
...officer, R. H. Lord '06, as El Quidam, and the ludicrous apothecary, El Boticario, carried out their parts as the three wronged husbands, with a great deal of life. In the latter role, G. E. Hyde '09, in his mock tragic suggestion of duel with two pills, one of poison, and the other harmless, interpreted a humorous part with great understanding...