Word: doped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reparations Bonds, soon after the Young Plan comes into effect (TIME, June 10, et seq.), Tageblatt intimated that should Dillon, Read beat their "rivals" to the Stock Exchange with an $100,000,000 German loan, subsequent Morgan pickings from Reparations Bonds might verge upon the loan. According to the "dope" Dr. Schacht was persuaded to obstruct the loan by Seymour Parker Gilbert, whose post as Agent General of Reparations will automatically be abolished when the Young Plan comes into effect. For years Germans have been hearing that Mr. Gilbert will then become a Morgan partner...
Narcotics. "It is openly alleged in Boston that Charles ('King') Solomon is head of the dope racket ... is the chief source of supply for all wires, runners, peddlers and addicts in New England . . . has reaped unbelievable profits...
...bullets, instead of striking directly, bounce off some such household object as a chandelier, umbrella stand or commode. Playwright Hugh Stanislaus Stange's thriller will appeal to small boys, but perhaps they had better not be allowed to see Miss Florence Johns's harrowing portrayal of a dope fiend...
WELCOME DANGER?Harold Lloyd embroiled with dope peddlers...
...esteemed contemporary. The Evening World, calls attention to a state of football affairs that is indeed curious. "Harvard won again this year," it says, "and everywhere this is regarded as air upset, as the dope had favored Yale Why? One is at a loss to think. The dope always favors Yale, so much so that the sports writers would appear to have a Yale complex. Yet the hard facts are that since 1906, when the forward pass was introduced and the modern game may be said to have started, Harvard has won eleven games and Yale only eight. Three years...