Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...During a tempestuous passage he rounded up 16 tormented travelers. After each had been given a well-known treatment (subcutaneous injections of epinephrine chloride), he started his experiment. To eight he gave three to five grains of sodium nitrite every two hours. All eight were cured after the second dose. The other eight, who received no sodium nitrite, were ill for two days...
After this heroic dose of pills and possets for the intellect, the delegates climbed aboard a special train and sped across the Norwegian Alps to Bergen...
After the show was over, there was an unpleasant aftermath of surreptitious doings which further emphasized the mercenary aspect of dog shows. Someone administered a dose of arsenic to Hi-Point Monoplane, prize collie puppy, owned by one William J. Burgess. So potent was the dose, that Hi-Point Monoplane died a day or so later, to the rage, sorrow, and financial loss of his owner. Someone else fixed a beady and covetous eye on Warily Gang Leader, champion wire-haired fox terrier, kennel mate and spouse to parexcellent Talavera Margaret. While the dog was being shown by her owner...
...blood can stand no longer, the queue folk rent camp stools from hucksters for a few pence each. Then, lest they topple in exhaustion from the stools, they fling several more coppers to street artists and organ grinders who essay to keep the queue awake. Finally standees and sittees dose themselves with coffee sold by vendors who cry loudly the first Hottentot syllable, "hot . . . hot . . . HOT!" Last week Edward of Wales commented sympathetically upon London theatre queues in addressing the Old Playgoers' Club, a cozy, clannish company. Said he: "We who have seen a long line of very...
...babbits, who attended the exhibit only because they had read news-stories which led them to expect, if not a touch of pornography, at least a large dose of sacrilege or obscenity, were baffled by the thoughtful bearded face of Tagore, the horselike countenance of the Duchess of Marlborough, the several gay and wayward studies of Peggy Jean (Mr. Epstein's child). When they looked across the room at No. 21, they wondered what wild emotion caused the bronze woman to clasp her hands and open her mouth in so inane a fashion. Some of the sharper babbits decided...