Word: dope
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standards. The story, called The Ptomaine Canary, tells how a strapping Met soprano with ambitions as a detective-story writer tries to speed her literary success by drugging such established literary rivals as Erie Stanley Gardner, John Dickson Carr, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler: she lures them into accepting dope-soaked birdseed held out to them by her trained canary, Galli-Curci. The soprano gets in trouble when one of her less celebrated victims unexpectedly dies. Despite its over-cute plot and slapdash style, the tale could count on plenty of readers, since its author was a Met soprano herself...
...ruled against the contention of the Communist Eugene Dennis that the jury which convicted him of contempt of Congress could not be impartial because it included Government employees. Yet not long before it had found that a Government worker is not an impartial juror in a case involving the dope trade! It's unfair to the Court majority to assume it is ignorant of the terror of the left which is instilled in Government workers by the continuing "loyalty" purges. The only interpretation that can be put on the decision in the Dennis case is that the Justices are subject...
...Atlanta enumerator rode 60 feet into the air on a block & tackle to get the dope from Flagpole-Sitter Odell Smith (address: Cloud No. 65), and one in Detroit obligingly returned three times to set down the facts about a housewife who refused to talk to him while her husband was at home. "I don't tell him anything," she explained. Another housewife urged the census taker to help her discover how much her husband earned. The man who set out to get the count in View Ridge, Wash, (wartime pop. 4,000) suffered a deep shock...
...series of movies that try to make 1934's It Happened One Night happen all over again. Thrown together on an unorthodox journey in Mexico and forced to pose as husband & wife, Fred MacMurray and Claire Trevor bicker their way into true love. They mistake each other for dope-smuggling hijackers, but each is really an agent of the law who thinks that the other will have to be turned in when they reach the border...
...madams, streetwalkers and homicidal housewives-set up a hullabaloo the minute they moved in. Locked up nightly in their blue-green-tinted rooms, they howled last week for the earthy gabfests, the feuds and hairpullings of the old bullpens. "I'll take Guanabacoa any time," rasped an ex-dope peddler. "Prison is prison," yelled another ingrate, "and I like mine with company...