Word: hemp
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...weaknesses there must be in this system." Coarse, shrewd, unlettered, but basically goodhearted, Mr. Perkins is not a bad fellow. He visits a collective farm, tours the front, where he eats his own sausage, sent to Russia under Lend-Lease. He and the Russians understand one another. But "Mr. Hemp," the U.S. correspondent accompanying Perkins, is a slippery, prying, anti-Soviet...
...Johnston and William L. White visited Russia during the summer. In the play there are no similarities to Johnston and White either in physical appearance of the actors or in characteristics as revealed by the lines. But to Muscovites, 'Mr. Perkins' is Eric Johnston and 'Mr. Hemp' is Bill White. And that is how it will be, as long as the play runs...
Kudzu is an old Japanese plant, grown in the Orient for its edible tubers (roots) and hemp-like fiber. In the U.S., where it was first grown in 1895, it has been known chiefly as a fast-growing porch vine. But southern farmers now cultivate it as a field plant to cover eroding soil. Planted from "crowns" (roots and buds), it spreads quickly, putting down new roots like strawberry runners. Its big leaves, shed each fall, eventually cover the ground with a thick, flaky carpet like a forest floor. Because it may be winterkilled by hard frosts...
...Osmeña's chance came at Washington. He wangled more than the Jones Act-a bill for complete independence. Swiftly Quezon marshaled his forces among the Islands' politicos, defeated the bill in the Philippine Legislature. Then, in 1934, Manuel Quezon, aided by powerful U.S. sugar and hemp lobbies, got his own independence bill. He became the obvious choice for first Philippine President. Manuel Quezon loudly proclaimed that he would not run unless Sergio Osmeña ran with him for Vice President. Osmeña went along...
...Persian Practice. In some form, hemp has been smoked since long before the beginning of the Christian Era. It was familiar to the ancient Hindus and Persians. It is smoked widely by the Arabs. Eminent European vipers have included De Quincey, Baudelaire (who once, under the influence, sketched a self-portrait, with the Colonne Vendôme in hashish perspective), Dumas, Gautier. The U. S. vogue, precisely coincident with the vogue for hot jazz, began in New Orleans a generation ago, moved up the Mississippi to Chicago, thereafter spread east and west...