Word: opium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...habitual as opium dreams, visions of a fifth trip to the Rose Bowl last week began plaguing Alabama as Kentucky was defeated by half-a-dozen touchdowns...
SELECTED WRITINGS OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY-Edited by Philip Van Doren -Random House ($3.50). Generous, nicely packaged, freshly kept sample comprising about one-eighth of the English Opium-Eater's 17-vol. works...
...French novelist, Louis Scheurer. Essentially romantic, Louis came out of his War experiences too cynical to be interested in politics, although his views were "vaguely to the Left''; too disillusioned to write good books, although his novels were critical successes; too restless to sleep, although he smoked opium. When Bianca's young cousin Peter Cable, fresh from Oxford, gets tangled up with the Galère, they tear him apart in no time. Both Louis and Peter are arrested in an opium den, involved in a scandal that cannot be laughed off. Peter dies in a sanitarium...
...which make habitual users permanently hard of hearing was the most immediately useful information presented at the convention of the American Otological Society at Long Beach, L. I. last week. Those drugs are, according to Dr. Hermon Marshall Taylor of Jacksonville, Fla.: quinine, salicylates (aspirin, sodium salicylate), tobacco, alcohol, opium, arsenic (salvarsan), lead, mercury, phosphorus, oil of chenopodium, aniline dyes, insulin...
...innovation will be inserted in the way of refreshments by the introduction of Good Humers. The use of Memorial Hall in preference to the Union is expected to keep this evening's affair from resembling the San Francisco opium den of former years...