Word: hopheads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale at 20. Bored there. Became a Bowery bum. Lived a while with a hophead and his wife. Recalled to New Haven where his mother, dying, toasted in champagne her sons, her "wonderful life," smashed the glass...
...last found her first really satisfying activity when she threw up the job to travel with circuses, as publicity woman. Between tours she junketed on a Portuguese tramp steamer with a cargo of wild animals and a mad captain. She also got mixed up with a snaggletoothed, hophead Chicago gangster named Kid Spider, who proposed marriage and got her in the bad books of Scotland Yard...