Word: dope
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was a threat the rest of the world could not ignore. Until 1840 Shanghai was little more than a second rate Chinese city sitting on a mud flat at the mouth of the turbulent Yangtze River, but in 1842 Britain defended her right to sell dope to the Chinese by fighting and winning the Opium War. Shanghai was made one of five Treaty Ports opened to foreign trade. Other nations saw the importance of the city. France and the U. S. acquired territorial concessions there. Shanghai became the funnel mouth for half the commerce of China. Today...
Georges Gauchet, 25, well brought up son of a millionaire, squandered a fortune on Montmartre, became a dope addict, was cut off by his family. Impoverished, he broke into a jeweler's store on the fashionable Avenue Mozart, killed the jeweler with a hammer and a revolver...
...citizens understand that if people set out to sell dope or whiskey or women, somebody is going to get jailed, hurt or killed. In some cities even such a homely thing as the family wash may cause cracked skulls, bombings. Last week saw the continuation of a new kind of peacetime war. The Nation's milk, product of patient kine, beverage of babies, churned up in violence.* Near Plainfield, Ill. The Guernsey herd of Isaac Lentz, an independent dairyman who had withdrawn from a local milk distributing association and cut his price, lay in their stalls placidly swishing their...
...merged (and buried) Popular Magazine with another of their 15 periodicals-Complete Stories. The end of Popular, like the end of Everybody's, rang the knell of another semi-pretentious sheet which could not compete with the innumerable sporadic, cheap magazines which frankly pander yarns about gunmen, speakeasies, dope. Popular-Complete Stories, beginning with the December issue, will be smaller than Popular, will sell for 15? instead...
...speed, the dust, the men leaning forward on the seats of their sulkies, swinging their light whips. But if its popularity has become polarized, the honest traditions of harness racing have strongly survived. One hundred and twenty-five miles south of Saratoga, where "tamperers" were last week busy injecting dope in the necks of racehorses, 10,000 farmers, socialites and horsemen gathered at the spry town of Goshen, N. Y. to see the sixth running of the $50,921 Hambletonian Stake, richest U. S. harness race...