Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father of Florence, the drug addict, was a sober Yankee livery stable manager. Her mother, a neurotic, took morphine. Florence fell in love with the son of the Jewish owner of the department store where she clerked. Their prolonged, secret engagement was honorable and nerve-wracking. Secretly they were married. Following an abortion, Florence picked up her mother's morphine habit. Florence ran away from her husband, bigamously married a second, divorced No. 1 and married a third. No. 3 left her when he discovered that she was a drug addict and, between drug spells, a drunkard...
...make up the present Cabinet were wasting their time debating anxiously such a minor factor as the alcoholic strength of a drink which gets its chief effect from wormwood (absinthium) which contains the powerful narcotic absinthin. The alcohol in absinthe acts as the carrier and catalyst of the drug in its subtle assault upon the brain. Neither wormy nor a wood, wormwood is a bitter-tasting weed fairly common in Europe and the U. S. under such local names as madderwort, mugwort, ming-wort, warmot and wermuth. Swiss farmers never think of buying absinthe, but make it at home from...
...auto gadgets) was gobbled up by its Toledo neighbor Electric Auto-Lite, presumably to edge into Moto Meter's lucrative business with Walter P. Chrysler. Last week Moto Meter's brusque, efficient President Royce G. Martin was made head of Auto-Lite, succeeding Clement O. Miniger, ignition tycoon, onetime drug salesman, who became board chairman...
...months of 1933. Possessing 90% of the world's nickel, Nickel would profit from war. At present not more than 5% of its output is used in armaments.* When Robert Crooks Stanley took the presidency in 1922, his job was to create a peacetime business. Nickel was such a drug on the market that the mines were closed, his company had lost nearly $800,000 in one year. Smart, self-confident, aggressive and a trained metallurgist. President Stanley wove into the warp of industry a number of steel and copper alloys, notably Monel metal (named after Nickel's first president...
...Sotol, a distilled liquor made in Mexico from a yucca-like plant; marijuana, a drug, long common in Mexico, made from a variety of hemp weed...