Word: doping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nowadays France and Britain are said not to use women spies, believing them unreliable. France claims that the German Intelligence has stooped to hiring dope fiends, whom it supplies with dope, then makes desperate and ready to do anything by cutting off the supply. An ex-spy of higher type believed working now for Berlin is Norman Baillie-Stewart, Seaforth Highlander lieutenant who was convicted in 1933 of selling military secrets and imprisoned in the Tower of London until 1937, when good behavior ended his five-year sentence and he exiled himself from Great Britain. The London Evening News stated...
...until they could find out: 1) whether TBS could get wire lines; 2) whether the business it had lined up would warrant an annual outlay of $800,000 to $1,000,000 for lines; 3) whether it could keep enough important stations in line to survive. Lacking the straight dope on these points, they called it a "ghost-to-ghost" network...
...became, along with Shaw, Sir Oswald Mosley, Haldane and Lloyd George, a plugger for peace. By last week London's Daily Worker had obviously re-established its pipeline to Moscow and instead of wild conjectures about the new Party line, was again dishing out the straight official Comintern dope. It front-paged an editorial about "imperialist statesmen" still "bargaining hard," continued...
Many Harvard upperclassmen who crashed the tea, technically held only for Freshmen, made up their own dope sheets...
...foreign news, has good sources of information, is pretty accurate. Published anonymously, the snooty Whitehall Letter insists that its subscribers be properly introduced. The Far East Survey is published fortnightly by a onetime editor of Kobe's Japan Chronicle, A. Morgan Young, purports to give Britishers the inside dope on what goes on in China and Japan...