Word: opium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a defense attorney insinuated that her opium-smoking husband had been intimate with one of her girls, Madam Arnold drew herself up, cried: "I am my husband's wife and his girl friend...
Trim, well-groomed Dorothy Arnold, 24, also known as Doris Sherman and Dixie, insisted that she had never prostituted herself. Virginia-born, she left school at 14, eloped at 17 with a carnival man. In New York he made a living sefling gowns and lingerie, then took to opium and retired. Meantime a girl she knew had begun bringing men to her apartment. Soon Dorothy Arnold took up this kind of entertaining as a livelihood. Once she tried to operate without bookers, found she could get no girls. Her girls, she said, charged whatever a man would pay, usually...
...with Sanctions against Italy. Yet if the League Covenant were revamped to do away with Article XVI, which authorized the use of force in applying Sanctions, then the League could continue as an amiable debating society, publishing valuable works on the extent of white slavery, the opium traffic, and the migration of whales...
Bland General Chang Chun has very little to do with formulating China's foreign policy. A multi-millionaire many times over, his vast fortune comes from the international opium traffic and a goodly slice of the Chinese national lottery. This has given him no Chinese stigma, for General Chang also controls the Bank...
...that poetry is untranslatable. Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), whom the late Lytton Strachey called "the Swift of poetry," and who is still the most widely read poet in France, was a well-to-do bourgeois who despised his class, lived most of his life with a mulatto mistress, took opium and scandalized even Paris with his Fleurs du Mal, which combined polish, putrescence and pornography to an inspired degree. Since his death he has been manhandled by many a translator. Last week the latest attempt to transplant his hot-house Flowers of Evil was put on exhibition...