Word: doped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After having predicted that the Russian Five Year Plan would take fifty years to explain and that New York would have to be reforested seventeen times to furnish enough pulp to make straw ballots, this election dope is child's play. I'll go on record right now as prophesying a victory for the silver tongued bond salesman from Hyde Park by 430 electoral votes. Because the Great Engineer denied torturing Chinese coolies, he will lose California and South Boston...
...Administration may upset the dope and put on a strong battle, but I am listing only the New England states, Colorado, Kansas, Delaware, and New Jersey, in addition to those mentioned above, in the Boover column...
...fancy to the doctor, offered to make his fortune. His assistant, Nurse Martha, an angel in thin disguise, fell in love with him. His cases kept him busy: a dying old woman who wanted to be kept alive long enough to say good-by to her son; a dope-fiend who had once been a nobleman; his beautiful sister who was almost ready to sell herself to Stephanson; the clever surgeon who had gambled away his reputation and his fortune. By the time the short passage was over Dr. Wohlmut had had enough concentrated experience to learn a new thing...
Young Chang followed Wang out two days later, handed over his control to two committees, one political, one financial. It was a move that Peiping observers have been expecting for nearly two years. Well meaning, sickly, dope-taking Young Chang had never the influence or the ability of his sly father, the late great Chang Tso-lin. Japan's occupation of Manchuria has ruined him financially, disgraced him as a soldier, emasculated his ragged army. What the final result of these two resignations will be few dared guess last week. It was obvious that the strange sort of equilibrium...
...Archer, a colored physician almost as erudite as Frimbo himself. Dr. Archer's suggestions proved invaluable to Detective Dart who seated himself in Frimbo's parlor and proceeded to examine suspects: the undertaker; the undertaker's wife ; a Negro porter named Easley Jones; a dope fiend; a "numbers" runner; two light-hearted Negro bucks named Bubber Brown and Jinx Jenkins; a gaunt female Baptist...