Word: poison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sons-in-law are incessantly reported vexed about their mothers-in-law. But rarely are they reported trying to poison them. Even in Abyssinia, small country in the northeast of Africa, where it is easy to poison people because they take so much red pepper at dinner that they can taste nothing else, sons-in-law have rarely been reported trying to poison their mothers-in-law. But last fortnight, an Abyssinian actually was accused of wanting to poison his Abyssinian mother-in-law. Further, he was accused of having succeeded...
...power of a bad gambler, agrees for his sake to put catnip in the champion's water-bottle so that the gambler may be assured in advance who will win the big fight. The audience, on the other hand, knows that no catnip or other poison can hamper Champ Jack Dillon in the performance of his art. The last scene shows the fight itself. Dempsey throws his hands around more wildly than he does in an off-stage ring but there are moments when he does not pull his punches. After his quiet, embarrassed performance in drawing-room...
...noses off of the gods before he sailed to war, in Sicily, across a stormy sea. They might share Plato's dream of a fair, impossible republic and they might share too his memory of Socrates, a strange fellow who was continually talking and who, before he drank poison bravely, looked out of the windows of his jail at the hills of Athens...
...half a thousand listless, far-away faces in a giant lecture hall. He would rather be an organ-grinder's monkey than a bandleader's baton. He has staked his reputation on a small college with a limited course of instruction, thorough within itself; and if that be poison, there is still Columbia, Cornell, California, Michigan, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Brown...
...FRONT PAGE-One man's beat is another man's poison and other journalistic axioms displayed with extreme rapidity and skill (TIME, June...