Word: opium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Opium dreams, as addicts know, sometimes approach a revelation of the ultimate truth. In its book reviews Punch recently plugged a book called A Modern De Quincey by Captain H. R. Robinson, onetime opium addict, who was commissioned in the British Indian Army in 1915. Said Punch's review...
...scope of cooperation in the postwar world, Dr. Quo said, must be both political and economic, with all nations entitled to security and economic wellbeing. He spoke just before the looth anniversary, on Aug. 29, of the Treaty of Nanking signed after the "Opium War." Within the next two years Britain and the U.S. obtained extraterritorial rights, concessions and special treaties giving the white man what the Chinese called "a series of immunities which as a rule are accorded only to diplomatic representatives...
...probably the best thing that ever happened to U.S. drug addicts. By shutting off the sources, chiefly Asiatic, of smuggled dope (morphine, heroin, opium and derivatives), the war in Asia has for several years been cutting into the illicit drug traffic at a rate U.S. preventive agencies never hoped-to achieve. The result, says the annual report of the U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics, is that drug addiction has reached an all-time low because many drug addicts (there are an estimated 45,000 in the U.S.) have been forced to take cures...
Died. Charles A. Taylor, 78, blood-&-thunder dramatist of the '90s; in Glendale, Calif. Five of his melos were running at once on Broadway in 1892. Some of his plays: From Rags to Riches, Yosemite, The King of the Opium Ring, The Queen of White Slaves. Star of Rags was wide-eyed Laurette Taylor, then his wife...
...like to see restored the old Army Canteen Act of 1901, prohibiting all liquor on military reservations -with an added prohibition against liquor in nearby areas. Like all W.C.T.Uers, Mrs. Smith does not believe in moderation. She wants total abstinence and no back talk. Would you, she inquires, recommend opium, in moderation...