Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During the War he volunteered, raised his age by fibbing, his weight by draughts of lemonade before the medical examination. On being graduated from the University of Washington he went to Australia, worked for the Australasian Syndicate reporting post-War conditions in the South Sea Islands. After a bad dose of malaria, he joined the San Diego Sun, apparently for keeps...
...looked last week as though the Federal Reserve Board had given a dose of salts to a country with a broken leg. The volumes of excess credit (about $300,000,000 worth) which the Reserve had quietly been piling up since February by increasing its weekly purchases of Government bonds (TIME, April 25) still lay idle. Observing this, the Board lowered its purchases of Government bonds from around $100,000,000 a week to $58,000,000, and awaited developments...
...midst next June, with graduate Gold Dust Twins, Sapolio Boys, Old Dutch Cleanser women, and Campbell Soup cherubs. If they do turn up, however, a large portion of the undergraduate body may well take pleasure in escorting them to the dumps behind the Business School and applying a liberal dose of another effective delouser...
...last week Howard Edwards could not sleep well. A salesman in Newark, N. J., he felt the need of a good night's rest, so he swallowed some veronal. As he was dozing off Howard Edwards' mother looked at the bottle, saw he had taken three times the normal dose. She called a hospital...
Letty Lynton (MGM). The heroine of this picture further enlightens cinemaddicts on the pains of promiscuity. Letty Lynton (Joan Crawford) not only has lovers. She has one who is patently the lowest grade of Latin American, and she kills him with a dose of poison. So rude and forceful are his amorous tactics that she has the full sympathy of all decent members of the audience. She is driven to distracted crime by her high-minded affection for a young Bostonian (Robert Montgomery). Her low Latin despises this affection, threatens to cut it short. Letty Lynton's misdemeanors...