Examples of use of opium den
1. It uses the respectable cover of a gambler‘s tip sheet to hide its true role as the political equivalent of an opium den.
2. I‘m deposited on an impeccably non–creaky chair in the middle of a cosy room that one could easily imagine being used as a brothel bedchamber or an opium den.
3. There was a barbershop, a police force and a 24–hour commissary that served chicken soup (nine kosher hens for every three gallons of liquid). There was a house bookie, an opium den and, every Christmas Eve, remembered one employee, ‘‘an orgy that would have made Caligula feel at home.‘‘ The studio did not employ a staff abortionist, however.
4. His blond hair fascinated the Chinese – who believed that touching his head would bring good luck – and so he was allowed access to all manner of venues, including such exotic sites as an opium den, a mafiosi meeting room, and a brothel.
5. Its World in Wax museum once showed dioramas of current events –– opium den sagas, murders, presidential stories –– said Charles Denson, author of "Coney Island: Lost and Found." During World War II, Coney Island had an exhibit of captured Nazi warplanes and used fireworks displays to depict the United States winning sensational battles, Denson said.