Word: opium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...factors which, beside the presence of the Marx Brothers, contributes most to the success of the performance is the unusual quality of the sets they are simple, but strikingly original, especially the ticker tape finale to the Wall Street scene, and the Chinatown opium den, which is a realization of one's most extravagant dreams of what a layout ought to look like...
...further suggested that a commission appointed by the League should decide when the danger of opium smuggling in China is passed; for, in his lordships opinion, it was useless to deal in half measures-all production in the drug was to cease immediately. It would then be possible for a 15-year period of gradual suppression of opium production to begin...
...good; but his lordship allowed his irritation to rule his Salisbury head. He accused the U. S. of using more opium and narcotic drugs than the people of India, whose sacred rights he was also representing.- Such absurd charges all but broke up the conference. Mr. Porter took the earliest opportunity of rising to confront Lord Cecil with his black slander on the U. S. A situation had undoubtedly been created that called for diplomatic handling. Mr. Porter was anything but suave, he fell in Lord Cecil's error, replied angrily that the charge was a false and vile...
...Porter arose once more, made a concession; said that the U. S. would agree to a 15-year period for the elimination of the opium scourge, would permit individual Governments to carry out the terms of the proposal; but he would not agree to wait until China had suppressed her opium production to an extent that would remove the smuggling danger. Upon that rock, the conference bumped its battered bows...
...France's proposal differed in that she was willing to permit China two years in which to grapple effectively with the opium problem before the 15-year period was put into effect. *In India, opium is not smoked but eaten. A proposal that was still in committee is to deal with the eatirig of the drug. Undoubtedly, Lord Cecil had this in mind...