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Word: opium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...iniquity and gets the breaks working just before he pitches over the edge. For the outcome, the reader is referred to the title. George O'Brien and Dorothy Mackaill are the slider and the brakes respectively. The action roams just about all over the world, gets into opium dens and that sort of thing, and manages to make itself thoroughly exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 8, 1924 | 9/8/1924 | See Source »

...many sales here and things are four times cheaper than at home. Well, parents, this is a very exciting life out here. There are two boatloads of Chinese, Italians, Greeks, etc., all waiting to be smuggled into the States. There are also a couple of steamships with opium, heroin, morphine and cocaine, all of which is being smuggled in every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Pot Pourri | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

...couple of steamships with opium, morphine, heroin, cocaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Aug. 4, 1924 | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

...Opium. A new investigation into the quantity of opium necessary to the world's medical and scientific needs was authorized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Council | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

...growing ascendency of tobacco over opium in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Apr. 21, 1924 | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

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