Word: doping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SEEMED probable for a moment last night that Sergeant Willard Mack, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, would be out-diced in his conflict with Joseph Sweeney, the slickest dope-vender between Winnipeg and Vancouver. The sergeant, all ablaze in his scarlet tunic, had ventured into Hip Lung's basement laundry in search of murderers; and he was caught there like a brilliant parrot in a cage. Sweeney, a mean devil, had handcuffed the gorgeous fellow and was bossing him around at the point of a gun. Just as we were prepared to go home with the Sergeant's death...
...Mack or Sergeant Michael Devlin as he is called in the play-bill, was a fussy and bumptious redcoat, though shrewd, daring and romantic withal. He was making love to dope flend's little sister as the curtain fell after all the villians were on their way to the gallows. "The Scarlet Fox," excepting several ridiculous moments of April-fooling, is a pretty fair cock-and-bull dream. In it you may enjoy some unbelievably veracious acting by Miss Marie Chambers as the chatelaine of a Canadian bagnlo; by Mr. Sam Lee, as a canny Chinaman, and by Mr. Sweeney...
...gamble that a good percentage of newspaper readers would "fall" for a cure. Such cure Dr. J. W. Haines, of Cincinnati, offered to provide in his powders. They contain milk sugar, starch, capsicum (pepper) and a minute amount of ipecac-a useless and fake dope against alcoholism, declares the American Medical Association...
While Mayor Thompson shouted and Chief Hughes compiled figures, leading citizens investigated for themselves. Besides the black eye which dramas like Chicago and The Racket were giving their city, citizens had become genuinely alarmed by hordes of crooks and thugs who, finding the alcohol and dope industries too highly organized to be profitable or even safe in Chicago, had turned to such bold badness as the "union racket"- a simple strongarm game, played with lead pipes and sawed-off shotguns, where the crooks formed "labor unions" of junk men, fish dealers, tailors, cobblers or other defenseless professionals, and shot...
...play is based on the eminently successful novel of the same name by Du Bose Heyward (white). Its central figure is a crippled boy. The theme: his love for a girl intermittently addicted to dope. The third figure of the triangle is a towering black murderer who is choked to death by the cripple's steely fingers in the final...