Word: opium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Casting aside the superficial resemblance of such privacy to that of an opium den, one may wonder at it nevertheless. Smoking, among men atleast, depends for its existence upon its sociability; if it were considered proper to smoke only in absolute privacy the habit would soon disappear. Nor is the masculine smoking room usually a place of retreat from the world: it is usually one of hospitality, if not downright conviviality. To an old story, however, it will now be necessary to make an addition. The Princeton man lights first your cigarette and then his; the Yale man lights first...
...Opium. Colonel Daniel W. MacCormack of Boston, technical adviser to the Persian government, urged the U. S., France, Germany, Japan, other drug manufacturing countries, to follow Persia in stemming the flow of poppy juice. He said that Persia, following the lead of India, had agreed to reduce the manufacture of opium 10% annually, which, he said, represented a real economic sacrifice since the export of the drug constituted 20% of the export trade and 10% of the government's revenue. No action was taken...
Dame Rachel Crowdy, Chief of Social Questions and Opium Traffic Section of the League of Nations, was driving home in her Ford car. The latter "was promptly suspected...
First in war, first in peace, Bishop Brent had had experience in handling international conferences, as president of opium parleys at Shanghai (1909) and The Hague (1911). He declined the bishoprics of Washington, D. C., and New Jersey, to preserve for his world ministry the freedom of action he enjoys at Buffalo, N. Y. When his world ministry reached its peak this month, he was not content merely to preside over the hundreds of churchmen he had brought together, but went with them into their councils; explained, directed, adjusted and dictated daily despatches on their progress to the New York...
...easygoing, indo lent, not particularly patriotic and almost joyfully unencumbered by anything remotely approaching an Occidental's concept of financial integrity. An official or a rich man has immemorially been expected to accept bribes, embezzle, cheat. The peasantry have usually chosen for their principal crop that hardy weed, the opium plant, a species of vegetation which requires absolutely no cultivation and fairly luxuriates upon the ideal soil of Persia. Not surprising, then, was the discovery of the Millspaugh Mission that in 1922 there were very few tomans in the Treasury, scarcely an official not addicted to taking bribes and hardly...