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Word: morphing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1926-1926
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Down in Doyers St., Manhattan, the miserables of the island, unostentatiously mouch along. Drunks muse on the likelihood of panhandling the price of a finger or two of "likker" (anything with alcoholic content). Drug addicts deviously ponder methods of getting another "shot of morph" (hypodermic injection of morphine), or a "sniff of snow" (nasal inhalation of crystalline cocaine). Homeless and friendless they are for the most part, and normally mindful of their own fuzzy, vague affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Blatant | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

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