Word: dope
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...performance all the way along the line if it is to prevail over one of the best balanced teams Jack Moakley has ever built at Cornell. Cornell is figured to score in 13 of the 15 events on the program, and Harvard in the same number. The preliminary dope sheets appearing in Cambridge show Harvard to have a probable total of 52 points, Cornell 50 points, Pennsylvania and Princeton 33 points each, Yale 32, Dartmouth 29, and Columbia...
...Rabelais is famous for his "Pantagruel" (three books) and his "Gargantua" He was a humanist and called a spade a spade; his motto was: 'Fais ce que voudras' or 'Do what damn please'--a fine dope to follow if you have a barrel of money, but for a poor guy it means prison inside of a week. Rabelais was an all 'round bad guy, didn't believe in God, and led a pretty fast life. His works show it, and they'd never do for a Girls' School, but would make a big hit with some college men I know...
Announcements of impending events in the world of music and the dance, advance information on programmatic matters and other available tid-bits of aesthetic interest will be the weekly fare of this budding column. It will endeavor to present, honestly and with decorum, such advance "dope" as it hopes will interest local devotees of Music...
Painful was the distress in Washington of kindly Secretary of State Cordell Hull. He has been receiving cold advance dope from Ambassador Breckinridge Long in Rome for two months that The Deal was on its way, but as a gentleman he found himself unable to believe anything so unflattering to his gentlemen friends and the gentlemen friends of Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham in the London Government. Paradoxically, able Ambassador Breckinridge Long has been getting much of his cold dope from British Ambassador Eric Drummond, now in Rome after 14 years as Secretary General of the League of Nations...
Because they are convinced that the Soviet Government, the Munitions Trust and other mysterious agglomerations pretty much dictate what is printed in Paris' larger papers, many Frenchmen buy daily for a copper or two thrilling Rightist sheetlets which hurl political dirt, libel and "inside dope" with such abandon that their passionate editors give at least the impression of sincerity. Yelped one such editor last week: "Shoot down like dogs the 160 Senators who want to suppress the Fascist Leagues!" Screamed another: "I take the responsibility for killing Leon Blum [Socialist Party Leader...