Word: dope
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...received word yesterday about the condition of the Yale eleven as it showed itself in the first game with Maine a week ago. We are indebted to the Yale "News" for the information. Although it is rather early for dope on Eli, a little will not be amiss. Therefore TIME OUT acknowledges the favor and prints in full the report from Yale as follows...
...were they not justified? The Great War had been cruel. Enough of that Solemly Oliver declares that he has bought an estate in Devonshire so that they can retire to respectability. Helen has consented of marry him: life is once again roseate. But Bascom, the uncurable dope-flend has tried a coup of his own; he has stolen a diamond necklace. Oliver attempts to return it and fails. Murder, pursuit by an army plane over the channel, a suicide, an other death perjury and an orthodox Hollywood ending with an unusually humorous last line by Mrs. Ropkins; it is wholesome...
...into kissing her. His little wife sees the kiss and tries to die by gulping all of what she thinks is Miss Baxter's cocaine. But it is only powdered sugar and her swoon is a symptom only of autosuggestion. Subplot: is or is not Miss Baxter a dope addict...
...authority on U.S. and Japanese aborigines, longtime (1895-1923) University of Chicago professor; of bronchial pneumonia; in Tokyo. An eccentric bachelor who hated women and telephones, he made news when he: took a group of Japan's hairy Ainus to the St. Louis Exposition in 1904; introduced marihuana (dope) cigarets to his Chicago students...
...concerns a smuggling ring. Although the plot is inane, and although the dialogue is filled with Minsky wisecracks, it may amuse the non-critical. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is the noble youngster who will fly licuor across the Canadian border, but when he finds that he has been unknowingly carrying dope in the plane, he thinks of the children who will be corrupted, of mothers, and especially of a ten year jail sentence. Bette Davis as the heroine acts as well as ever, and as seductively. She will fade even more rapidly than Marlene Dietrich if the directors persist in exploiting...