Word: opiumeators
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...every minute, particularly sweet food. Their skin became firm; they showed no sign of nervousness; they were declared cured, at least temporarily. Only one came back, a Negress who yearned for languor. And what, doctors wondered, will narcosan do for the shadowy, secretive regiments of U. S. addicts to opium, to morphin, to cocain...
...evils of alcohol to a concise history of Prohibition in the U. S. Professor Fisher is a veritable Gene Tunney to the wet. First, he twists the ear of the doubting reader with such statements as "The use of liquor is no more natural than the use of opium," and then he lays the doubter flat with 38 impressive charts charting the wonders the 18th Amendment has wrought. All evils-new recruits for the army of drunkards, per capita consumption of alcohol, juvenile delinquency, crimes against chastity, arrests in disorderly houses, profanity, deaths and insanity due to alcoholism-have decreased...
...onetime Governor of Hupeh province was seized as he fled Wuchang in coolie garb. Though these captured commanders may well have expected that their heads would soon adorn two sharpened poles, they were merely imprisoned. As a mark of special consideration General Liu was supplied by his captors with opium to which he is addicted. Complacent, he dozed into sweet oblivion, careless of possible assassins...
Though the churches are full of worshipers on 'holy days, the priests are obliged to tolerate the display by the State upon or near the altars of such mottoes as: Religion is Opium for the people
...Manchester Guardian Weekly, in an article concerning the League of Nations opium committee meeting, I find the following quotation: "A Chinaman who has no anti-foreign feeling is no true Chinaman." This quotation is attributed...