Word: doping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author Carl Van Vechten, Caucasian, who took up Negroes as an esthetic fad, then pictured them as depraved, in a book full of Harlem dives, dope peddlers, degenerates...
...awestricken secretary to the down-hearted young man who found his salvation in the little known occupation, of goldfish expert, many odd and enticing characters flood the pages. There is the demeure girl of many lovers. There is the quiet old gentleman whose wife proved to be a dope flend. There is the tender-hearted but masterful young lady whose happiness, which consisted in reforming others, was inevitably followed by tragedy when some untoward incident broke her spell and the convert, be it lover or friend or fellow employee, backslid. It is in the retailing of these experiences that...
...greasy titles in cheap pamphlets that changed names from month to month. The public, including school children, who clipped out the lust-inciting ladies, and passed them around in school, patronized this pornographic press, until its non-circulation had, according to the World, reached 150,000. Venders of fake dope and narcotic cures, fake aphrodisiacs, gland extracts, revolvers and artists' equipment had gladly advertised...
...Jees," said Herman, scornfully. "Dat's de kind o' rig I used to wear. Youse guys ha' got about as much dope on yerselves as Santy Claus. Looka here...
Morphin is an alkaloid derived from opium. Its stupefying effects are like the effects of opium, and four times as strong. A "dope" (morphin addict) quivers with hunger as the time comes for his injection. Sometimes he has a hard time finding a place to take it; he goes into a hotel washroom, a taxicab, even a telephone booth. Out of his pocket comes a piece of candle. He wants to sterilize his injection. He puts water in a spoon, heats it over the candle, dissolves his morphin, filters the solution through cotton, fills his needle, injects...