Word: drugging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medullary portion secretes a hormone which Professor John Jacob Abel of Johns Hopkins University has isolated. The synthetic adrenal medullary hormone is manufactured commercially as epinephrine. It is a dangerously potent drug which sometimes can revive a stopped heart...
...etched plate wears out after 75 or 100 proofs have been "pulled." Last week Director Charles L. Offin of The Etchers' Guild warned the public against mechanically reproduced facsimiles now sold in drug stores for $1 each...
...Good Testimonials v. Bad Testimonials, thought that Bad Testimonials were wrecking public confidence in advertising. Utah's Senator Reed Smoot (long interested in beet sugar & its tariff) said that there had not been such an orgy of buncombe since public opinion rose in its might and smote the drug traffic. He proposed that tobacco should be included in the Food & Drug Act and that food and drug advertising be subjected to the regulations prevailing with regard to labels...
...days when, if you were not playing pool at the smoke house, there was nothing to do but count the cars on Ohio Street, or go down to the station to watch the Spirit of St. Louis come in from New York, or lean against the window of Bards drug store, waiting for something to happen. He started a poolroom of his own, but found few customers. Moving to St. Louis, he opened another place, with metal tables in it, but the balls made such a noise whamming off the cushions that it got on his nerves...
...that year a little girl wrote him asking for an autograph and advising him that fashion favored beards.* Lincoln replied that he thought it would be "a piece of silly affectation," but on his inauguration day appeared with clumpy black chin whiskers. A cartoon of that day shows a drug store interior with a sign over the door, bearing the legend: "Agency for the Lincoln Whiskeropherous." On a table is a smirking bust of the hirsute...