Word: doped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theosophist (Otto Kruger), a charlatan (Ralf Harolde), an aging multimillionaire (Miles Mander), his sexy young wife (Claire Trevor), and her angry stepdaughter (Anne Shirley). The wife treats the shabby detective with brazen cozyness, the theosophist slams him across the chops with a pistol, the charlatan pumps him full of dope, the stepdaughter feeds him alternate Scotch and scorn, and the elderly, harmless-seeming nabob is in savagely at the climactic kill. The hyperpituitary ex-convict, incidentally, finds his lost lovely at last...
...everyone pulling together holds true in war. Most of the big generals and admirals are sports minded, MacArthur, Halsey and the others." Commenting on short-wave broadcasts of important athletic events. Don said, "I can't remember ever hearing one. The only way men on board ship get spirts dope is in the morning when the wireless operation pick up news and type it out. Of course you might have a few radios on some ships...
...step back and take an over-all view, then review the market again. This is the straight dope...
...story on dipsomaniacs got mixed up with a Science story on fish. Our sailors overseas must have gotten quite a kick out of reading about drunken smelts. ("The mysterious malady that all but wiped out the Great Lakes smelts is exceedingly dubious in the case of pathological liars, drunks, dope addicts or morons. But a few hardy ones survive...
...buying spree in low-priced auto shares. Through the grapevine from Detroit poured an endless cackle of tips and gossip as the auto industry jockeyed for postwar position. Biggest whoppers from the gossip mill last week concerned the future of the four Fisher brothers (TIME, Aug. 14). The dope had it that the Fishers were going to: 1) buy aging Henry Ford's titanic empire; or 2) buy control of three or four smaller companies and merge these into one automaker powerful enough to buck Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. (Wall Street could trace neither rumor to fact...