Word: addicting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troops seized Chiang Kaishek. This kidnapping was promptly hijacked by Chinese forces allied with the Communists. At Nanking an extremely grave suspicion was abroad that Brother-in-Law T. V. Soong, disappointed in an ambition to become Premier of China, had put The Young Marshal, a "cured" ex-dope addict, up to seizing the Generalissimo. What followed proved that Chiang had remade China. It also gave the lie to generations of Chinese history. Instead of rushing to seize Chiang's power Chinese soldiers and officials from all parts of the country began a bombardment of telegrams demanding the release...
...many privileges." Discovering that nobody minded if he cut classes, he spent most of the school year traveling, studied in the summer. Kicked out of Oxford for joining the Catholic Church, he was turned over to a freethinker in Switzerland, where he went in for society, became an addict of the French theatre after seeing Voltaire in one of his own plays, prided himself on becoming a man of the world instead of being "steeped in port and prejudice among the monks at Oxford...
Bertha knows all about dope and the dope traffic, but says she never became an addict herself, though she tried marijuana once. To appease her insatiable curiosity she became a prostitute, found the job unexciting. "I just felt completely wornout, as though I'd finished an unusually hard day's work." The earnings varied from $50 to $200 a week, but pimps and madams took all but a Woolworth-store residue. Arrested after two months' work, 30 men a day, Bertha found herself pregnant, with two venereal diseases. While waiting for her confinement she worked...
...There is a strange charm which binds you like a narcotic addict in chains to this marvelous country." -Walter Duranty last week from Moscow...
...scandal of narcotic addicts who practice medicine reared its head in Chicago last week when Dr. Roscoe Lloyd Sensenich of South Bend, Ind., onetime president of the Indiana State Medical Association, upbraided State medical boards for not revoking the licenses of such addicts and medical societies for not ousting them from membership. Said he: "The number of medical narcotic addicts has been estimated to number one addict per 100 physicians. Their probable future offers little of professional or social value and much of liability and danger to the public in their continuation in the practice of medicine...