Word: doped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Menace. Later in the day, all Hollywood began to share Mitchum's hang over. The press all over the U.S. was screaming "dope" scandal and hinting broadly that more sensations were to come. Clearly, a serious industrial crisis was in the making. The problem was much bigger than salvaging a valuable property named Mitchum, who had been nursed to stardom since he clicked with moviegoers in G.I. Joe. It was even bigger than protecting some $5,000,000 riding on three unreleased Mitchum films...
Last week three magazines were scrimmaging in an all-American squabble. In splashy newspaper ad's, Collier's announced a streamlined T-formation system for picking its 1948 team-but made no mention of "Granny" Rice. Piqued because he had turned out a football dope story for its arch-rival Look, Collier's told him he could take all his business in that direction. Rice did. As a quick replacement, Collier's lined up six big-name coaches (at $500 per coach).* This "Supreme Court of Football," aided by ballots of ex-All-Americas and campus...
...fiftyish, faded onetime Ziegfeld Follies dancer who was once pressagented as "the most beautiful girl in the world"; of seconal poisoning; in Los Angeles. After a few parts in silent movies, she married a Negro physician, Dr. Eugene Nelson, was dropped by the studios, eventually moved on to drink, dope and sanitariums...
...York customs guards, alerted by a tip from a reformed dope peddler, spent five days sifting the reeking cargo of a garbage scow, finally found a million dollars worth of morphine and heroin thrown there for temporary hiding by smugglers...
...Inside Dope...