Word: reefer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, Susanna and the Elders, was a trifle doughy. In Willie the Weeper, a raucous tale about a reefer smoker, the action takes place "in Willie's untidy mind." In this dim and messy setting, there are a few too many busy dancers and singers; but Moross' blue and boogie backgrounds and a goofy song called I've Got Me make up for the flaws. Hit of the show was The Eccentricities of Davey Crockett, which began stickily with Davey's "miraculous birth," but got better every minute...
Actually, wrote Morton (in the April Atlantic Monthly Bulletin, a chatty paper he sends to 4,000 editors, contributors and Atlantic friends), "the police, who have been sitting around in a state of indifference to overtime parking, burglaries, reefer peddlers, have finally been obliged to carry on a little simulation of activity . . . [and] such a description of Congressional procedures is almost a case for the postal authorities. As for Mayor Himmelfarber, he has never moved swiftly since crossing the 250-pound mark and to do so would lay him up with a thrombosis in short order...
...have been imposed upon grievously ... to accommodate . . . casuals off the streets who come to dance, drink and marvel in alcoholic stupor at ... the tough blonde griping hoarsely into a tin can mounted on a pipe . . . and pretty little thrips who sing mischievously about adultery . . . while Ollie Twitch and his reefer boys are tearing the atmosphere to bleeding tatters from the platform and some agile mugger with greased hair is twining a boneless female around his neck and exhibiting an impersonal patch of leg meat, hers...
...Rough Reefer. In Boston, police hauled Booker K. Miller into court on a charge of peddling marijuana cigarets, dismissed his case when a chemist's report showed that the cigarets consisted entirely of catnip...
...dimly lighted with colored lamps and reeks of incense burned to cover the telltale, bonfire-like odor of burning marijuana. Most tea pads are supplied with a juke box (known in marijuanese as a "piccolo"). Clients who have assembled to "have a pad" may smoke their own reefers. But commonly they blast the goof-butt collectively, passing a single reefer around from mouth to mouth like a pipe of peace. Next morning, enjoying a heavy sensation very much like an alcoholic hangover, they are said to be "down...