A lot of people invested in biotechs, back in the '90s.

A barren sceptre in my gripe.

Baby, who you callin' soft / Don't make me smoke up all your kush / Don't make me pop your cheap ass pills

I have known an operating surgeon, because he possessed a medical title, to be elected physician to a county hospital. I have known the surgical staff for years refuse to recognize this irregular. Yet, after all, when he became popular and unputdownable, giving in their isolated adhesions to the conqueror, not because they had altered their sentiments, but that their pockets taught them, like nature, to abhor a vacuum.