Alaina Urquhart

As Moore pointed out, when one of the greatest radium authorities tells you that you have no need to worry, quite simply, you don't.

You don't worry.

Yeah.

Yeah.

In fact, Willis's reassurances were so comforting that the girls even began to laugh off the increasing frequency of weird occurrences.

Like they were just kind of like, whoa, this is so weird.

Like.

Can't have anything to do with this.

Oh, God.

Including painter Grace Fryer, who recalled, quote, nasal discharges on my handkerchief used to be luminous in the dark.

Oh, my God.

Sometimes for fun or to make each other laugh, the girls would paint their faces, their nails, and even their teeth with the radium paint.

Mm-hmm.

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

Now, despite their employer's insistence that everything was on the up and up, everything is entirely, completely, don't worry about it.

Couldn't be safer.

Could not be safer.

The fact remains that many people, painters and ordinary citizens, were continuing to get sick.

Some, like the worker who complained of the mouth sores after a mouth, showed signs of radiation burns, while others had more complicated problems, because radiation burns at least...