Word: doped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fact No. 1. The main fact was simple enough. Rudolf Hess, only two places removed from the leadership of Germany, had quit Germany under his own steam and gone to the enemy country, where he was imprisoned. In all the howling vortex of dope-stories, nut-stories, crackpot theorizing, official and amateur speculation that the Hess flight evoked, only the New York World-Telegram affected to doubt Fact No. 1. The Telegram hired a series of detective storytellers to mastermind the Hess Case. One, Lee Wright of Publishers Simon & Schuster, opined that Hess wasn't Hess...
...Deacons' Testament, which will be on the newsstands on June 5,is expected to sell like 5c cigars when people learn that it uncovers the true story behind Snooperman, the mysterious genius who has reversed more than 100,000 books during his brilliant career. The Testament has all the dope--pictures of Snooperman in the act, a full story of how libraries hermetically sealed were broken into, and an editorial entitle. "What are we going to do about it?" Dick Lane, the editor, with a loyal staff of underlings, has seen to it that the Testament has complete coverage...
...Elephants have swept the river so far this year and should win the engagement easily, according to pre-race dope. In a mile test yesterday the first Eliot boat slugged over the mile course to finish a deck-length ahead of the second Eliots. Two lengths back was a Union Boat Club eight stroked by Spike Chace, whose name still makes every good Yale crew devotee shudder...
Furthermore, what makes Bob think that TIME'S story was pro-Ford? True, it was "clear and comprehensive," but even then it certainly wasn't antiunion, or anti-Wagner. Indeed, even to a Dearbornite, it gave a lot of dope we've been itching to know about for a long time. The diagram of Ford holdings, for instance, was an illuminating...
Riley's big chance came when the Japanese took Shanghai in 1937. The New Order in East Asia has been the biggest bonanza for criminals that China has ever seen. With stringent wartime blue laws at home, every out-of-work prostitute, gambler and dope peddler in Japan headed for Occupied China, where their enterprises found Army protection.* Local talent, too, found the Japanese Army and the puppet Government amenable to bribes...