Word: doped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as the 1941 baseball season was about to begin, baseball experts were perversely all agog about its far-off end. Some of the best dope available came from an exciting dress rehearsal at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. There 48,000 jabbering fans turned out to watch the Dodgers and the New York Yankees, both returned from spring training in the South, play in a three-game exhibition series...
...Yankees, generally favored to win the American League pennant this year, have the infield help of Rookies Phil Rizzuto and Gerry Priddy, the flashy Keystone Kids brought up from Kansas City (TIME, April 14). On the dope sheets their job is to nose out the Cleveland Indians, a team built around Super-Pitcher Bob Feller and the best infield in baseball...
...clever. Sidney Toler, Warner Olan's successor as China's Confucius-Sherlock Holmes combine manages to keep a boatload of psychopathic treasure hunters, a pirate ghost, and his number-two son well in tow. If you can see Chan. Even if you can't, see Hope--the dope...
Then came the surprise-one of those studied slips of inside dope, those discreet indiscretions, which so delight the Prime Minister: "Not only German U-boats but German battle cruisers have crossed to the American side of the Atlantic and have already sunk some of our independently routed ships not sailing in convoy. They have sunk ships as far west as the 42nd meridian of longitude...
...published in the Southwest, was a Literary Guild selection (1931) and he was called off a panther hunt to quaff Manhattan literary tea. In 1932-33, on a Guggenheim grant, he traveled 2,000 miles on muleback in Mexico, emerged with material for Tongues of the Monte, rich legendary dope on the lost Tayopa Mine (Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver). For The Longhorns he searched through thousands of pamphlets, talked to hundreds of oldtimers. Said an old trail driver of Frank Dobie: "He speaks our language-and he's got the right tune as well as the right words...