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Last week, nasal sprays were no joke for Silent Tom Smith, the man who developed Seabiscuit and this year trained Cosmetic Queen Elizabeth Arden Graham's top money-winning stable ($512,454 in purses). New York's vigilant Jockey Club, having found some dopey spray in one of his horses, banned Trainer Smith from U.S. tracks for a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Flit-Gun Hop | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

Doctors who have tried the method find that the mothers' muscle tone remains good, so that delivery is spontaneous, babies are not dopey, labor is shortened. One objection: the injection is 8 to 12 cm. (3⅛ in. to 4¾ in.) deep and some skeptics insist that not every doctor can learn to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pangless Childbirth | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

...there isn't very funny. I was 18 when I joined up, and I knew a lot of these kids then. Now, after they've been through a couple of campaigns they're old men. They're tired and they show it in their dopey expressions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Star-Spangled Banter | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Luftwaffe Pilot Müller bumbled like Walt Disney's Dopey. Whenever his Messerschmitt squadron buzzed over the Fifth Army front in Italy, he fluttered on the formation's edge, a lame duck awkwardly trying to join...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: The Pranging of Muller | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...suppose a man feels, after a tough day of training, when he finally gets a chance to lie down and rest ... to read an article about a dopey parasite, living in the lap of luxury, contributing nothing whatever to the betterment of mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Paper Warriors | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

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