Word: opium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of the time. Figuring a couple of months for the trip, they took seven, with many a layover for repairs and beachcombing. Once they made $50 catching kingfish; poker games showed a profit; they poached a sheep, paid for it later out of the fee collected on an opium-runner's errand. Diversions included their own brand of Rabelaisian horseplay, drinking bouts, a couple of carnivals, acquaintance with many an odd character...
...Chinese force, strictly brought up in the Christian virtues for years by the Methodist Generalissimo. That these soldiers might be morally too good was a fear to which their General Ku gave discreet expression last week. "If you observe the people of Sian and its province of Shensi smoking opium, ignore it for the present," he ordered, just before his troops finally entered Sian this week, apparently unresisted. "Hold your peace. We wish to forget that this Sian. trouble ever occurred. When in Sian you are seeking lodgings, ascertain that they are not occupied. Never seize quarters by force...
Translating all this into Western terms, an army of goose-stepping choir boys had marched this week into an unregenerate old pagan stronghold. Ragamuffin Communists were trying to persuade the choir boys and everyone else to go Red. And opium reared the ugly head of Vice...
...harm the Holy Mother of our part of Seville. Somebody fired at her last time, and you can be sure it was one of those psalm-singing Fascists, the stinking dogs!" As each of these Communists was supposed to believe with the late Great Lenin that "Religion is the opium of the people," observers could only repeat the old saw, "Most Catholics in Spain are pagan, but not all of them know...
...trouble with students or anyone else taking opium, morphine or heroin to relieve pain is that their effect becomes less with continued use and they are habit forming, he explained...