Word: opium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...muddy-looking white jade was used for mouth pieces for tobacco and opium pipes in China due to its cheapness. This was also on sale in Harbin and places in Manchuria...
...OPIUM, THE DIARY of AN ADDICT-Jean Cocteau-Longmans, Green...
Cleverest of living French writers, in his own and many others' opinion. Jean Cocteau is an opium smoker. Most good writers have something the matter with them but generally keep it dark. Not so Author Cocteau, who makes no apology for his vice, regards it apparently as an interesting integral part of the most interesting personality he knows. This "diary" is really a series of notes, on any and every subject, made at a clinic in St. Cloud, apparently while Author Cocteau was being, as he calls it, "disintoxicated." The 27 line-drawings, in Cocteau's unmistakable style...
...Eastern Inner Mongolia can be brought under Japanese sway by a few bombs & threats instead of by fierce fighting, so much the better for Japan. According to Chinese reports, Japanese soldiers have seized in Manchoukuo real estate, palaces and stocks of opium worth $10,000,000 belonging to General Tang. Better for Japan than realty and opium are the three main products of Eastern Inner Mongolia, about one of which Emperor Hirohito spoke last week: wool, hides, wheat. With extreme Oriental acumen Governor Tang rushed eight motor truck loads of "treasure" from Jehol into the Italian Settlement at Tientsin last...
...Petronius cut his wrists before company. Nero's other exquisites got into warm baths before they cut theirs. The warm water was to prevent the final chill of death. The Greeks drank hemlock. Chinese spite their neighbors by drowning themselves in the neighbors' wells. Other Chinese methods: over-smoking opium, sucking in a sheet of gold leaf to clog the windpipe...