Word: opium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however dreary, could hide from them its inner chambers hung with a thousand twilit blazonries and perfumed with the musk of frankincense and grated orris-root?chambers wherein slim Chinese girls with scarlet fingernails and breasts like almond-petals submit among Himalayas of varicolored cushions, to the embraces of opium-bloated laundrymen...
...were unprofitable to grow opium poppies, few would be grown. The opium question is solved: let chemists discover how to make synthetic opium and how to make it more cheaply than the poppy product...
...such matters, Mr. Metz is something more than a mere layman. He owns many chemical factories. But laboratory scientists were slow in getting to work. Said Columbia Professor of Chemistry Bogert: "Mr. Metz has risked little by his offer. . . . The making of a synthetic opium that will have all the medicinal qualities, or the good qualities, and be shy of the narcotic, or bad qualities, is something that I do not believe will be done-at least for a very long time...
...Metz' main objective would seem to be achieved if a synthetic opium having narcotic qualities were discovered. Such a formula could be controlled by the Government and would serve to destroy the vested poppy interests, as synthetic dyes replaced indigo growing...
Bishop Brent was Chief Commissioner for the United States and President of the International Opium Commission of 1908-09, and in 1911 Chairman of the United States Delegation to the International Opium Conference at The Hague. During the Great War Bishop Brent was head of the Chaplain Service under the United States Government in France. In 1923 the government sent him over as a representative to the Advisory Board of the League of Nations in the matter of Narcotic Drug Control. He was also made President of the World Conference on Faith and Order...