Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan court, Mrs. Evyleen R. Cronin, 58, onetime secretary-companion and maid to Tallulah Bankhead, was charged with stealing more than $4,000 from her former employer by raising and forging checks. The money was used, cried the defendant's lawyer, to buy things for Miss Bankhead-"Cocaine, marijuana, liquor, booze, whisky, champagne and sex." Retorted outraged lava-voiced Tallulah: "Of course I drink. But nobody has to kite checks to pay for my liquor." As for dope: "Even if I had been getting it-which I certainly wasn't-do you think I'd have been...
...president, a vice president, a war counselor who arranged the time & place for gang "rumbles" (wars), and a "light-up" man in charge of the arsenal. The boys spent their time in endless bull sessions at their "hangouts"-a candy store, bar or front stoop. They played hooky, smoked marijuana, stole, carried knives, revolvers and zip guns. They saw nothing shameful in forcing neighborhood girls into sex relations, often with several members of the gang...
...soldier who tried to arrest the culprit quickly became a target for a volley of empty bottles and oranges. "It's all in fun," screamed the charcoal makers, "don't arrest our brother." At the height of the uproar another soldier, who had just put down a marijuana cigarette, calmly unslung his Mauser, fired point-blank at the yelling fans. An aficionado dropped with a bullet behind...
...goof ball is not a marijuana smoker (weed-head, viper, tea-hound, herb). A goof ball is a nemmie (from Nembutal, trade name for a certain barbiturate), Geronimo, bomber, or any other barbiturate or sleeping pill...
Besides drug addicts, there are the usual thrill-seekers who take goof balls instead of marijuana, quite often ending up as confirmed addicts of the opium (hop, brown stuff) derivatives, such as morphine (M), heroin (H, horse, white stuff), or the coca-leaf extract, cocaine (C, Charlie, snow), which combined with heroin is injected as a "speed-ball...