Word: opium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minister from Bolivia has dissolved-probably in the interests of hemisphere solidarity-into an Italian envoy. Poor Poppy Smith (Gene Tierney), highborn, incognito daughter of English Sir Guy Charteris (Walter Huston), has lost many of her vices; she doesn't even smoke opium. Lush Victor Mature, the poor man's Boyer, cast in a role replacing the original Prince Oshima, Poppy's Japanese traducer, is now Dr. (of nothing) Omar, a befezzed, leering, Levantine heel...
...clear whether the Japanese will set up opium dens to debauch the Filipinos, as they have the Chinese, or what oppressive measures they may put upon the people. Already in provinces of Luzon (but not in primitive Bataan, which the U.S. still held) the Japanese had set up their own governments. Japanese residents, once outwardly peaceful shopkeepers and fishermen, blossomed out into uniforms and became provincial governors. Filipino quislings and renegade whites joined with them. The Jap's Special Service Station had also begun the looting of the islands by the familiar Nazi methods, including the use of cleverly...
...been tapped. Coal is known to lie just under the surface, but it has not yet been mined. With all Sarawak's natural wealth, some of Raja Brooke's main sources of revenue are, according to the ultra-conservative Statesman's Year Book, "customs, the Government opium monopoly, gambling, arrack and pawn farms" (ie) the Government farms out licenses for gambling, the sale of distilled rum, pawning...
Hong Kong, born of opium and piracy, fat with a century's pleasure and profit, died last week in a blaze of glory...
...still summon up goosebumps. No crude spook or corpse melodrama, no bloody bundle of closet horrors, Angel Street, which played in London under the title Gaslight, has the good old English knack of brewing a thriller in a teacup, of making a Victorian parlor more menacing than an opium den, of giving to gaitered footsteps a carpet-slippery stealth. This spooky tale of London's gaslit era creates suspense, not by keeping the audience in ignorance, but by making it doubt what it knows. It builds up tension, not by hurrying its pace, but by slowing it down...