Word: bootlegs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HABITS and CUSTOMS of modern LEGAL marriage, namely, 1 ) to legalize birth control, so as to make the "companionate'' relationship in lawful marriage just as legal and moral as the "procreative" relationship, especially since the great majority of all married couples practice the "companionate" relationship in a bootleg manner even though it is forbidden by the rules and laws of church and state. 2) To legalize certain sex education, so necessary for successful marriage, but which is now also quite generally forbidden by law. 3) To abolish the present divorce courts with all of their illegality, hypocrisy...
British System. The U. S. has 609 radio stations, no license fee for receiving sets. Canada has 66 stations. It taxes receivers $2 per year, figures that there are some 100,000 "bootleg sets" in the Dominion. In the British Isles there are 22 stations, all directed from the B. B. C. flatiron. The license fee of ten shillings per set (about $1.80 at current exchange) supplies the chief revenue of the B. B. C. and most listeners feel they get their money's worth. From licenses B. B. C nets around $4,500,000 per year, nets another...
...stood on the edge of the canal, next to the sumptuous guild of the moneylenders. On its lintel was the cryptic legend, "speak of nothing but business, and speak quickly. To the merchant-princes of the guild, who saw it in passing, it might have seemed like the humble bootleg of a cobbler. Not the most fortunate of them would know that within it countries of the mind were being discovered, vaster than the lands toward which another Italian was sailing in the same year. Entering, he would have found the flower of Venetian scholarship gathered about a table...
...complicated by Big Pa's conjuring, Cricket grows more & more restless. Though she loves Blue, she will not listen to his marriage proposals: she wants to go off to the big city, where Man Jay had gone before. When a rich stranger appears in the neighborhood and steals the bootleg trade away from Uncle Kelly, Cricket takes up with him. On the day set for their wedding the groom does not appear. Uncle Kelly has settled him. But the bride, all dressed for a wedding, must have a groom. Blue snatches the opportunity...
Despite the fact that most of Boston's suspected murderers at present are members of Irish, Italian, and Jewish bootleg gangs, their actions are far from typical of their race, Magrath declared. He described the Cero-Gallo murder case as an example of a murderer escaping through a technicality in the law. Gallo, who was acquitted on the perjured testimony of Philomena Romano, his sweetheart, cannot be tried for his life again under the United States law although there is now little doubt of his implication in the crime. Cero Gangi, apparently Gallo's tool in the murder of Fantasia...