Word: poisons
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...told in Harry Kemp's Tramping on Life: As Kemp was about to move out with Sinclair's first" wife, the aggrieved husband thrust her coffeepot upon him, saying, "You. can take this to your goddess, this poison machine, and lay it on her altar...
...that will cut down McCarthy's power will have to be a lot sharper than those in the hands of Stevens & Co. last week. That mighty oak must be approached with caution; it is covered with Toxicodendron radicans, i.e., poison...
...Bombing of Governor's summer home, bombing of post office, attempted poison plot on Governor Robert H. Gore and family...
...other hand, hated coffee SO deeply that when Harry (Tramping on Life) Kemp was about to move out with Sinclair's first wife, the aggrieved husband, according to Kemp, found her percolator and thrust it upon her lover, saying:"You can take this to your goddess, this poison machine, and lay it on her altar." Little wonder, then, that the U.S. public was in an uproar last week over coffee...
...Lucrezia Borgia? To the incurable readers of melodrama and Sunday supplements, a woman of glowing and undimmed evil, literally the great femme fatale (usually poison) of the Italian Renaissance.* To modern historians, who have been quietly rehabilitating her, Lucrezia was a good deal less lurid but still deplorable: a woman who probably poisoned no soup herself but weakly watched the other Borgias doing such things...