veronal
- n a barbiturate used as a hypnotic
- Ann Davis, leading lady, attempted to make a speech but swooned when prevented and was later discovered to have taken too much veronal.
- Luminal, developed in Germany during the last ten years, belongs to the same chemical group of drugs as chloral and veronal.
- Most newsreaders remember Starr Faithfull, if they bother to remember her at all, as a pretty young girl whose bruised body, with veronal in the liver, was washed ashore at Long .