Word: ill-gotten
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...grace of a comedy-romance by Ernst Lubitsch, who is said to have been much influenced by it. There is a wonderful moment, for example, when a piqued Purviance tosses an ill-gotten string of pearls out a window to prove her conversion from materialism - and then rushes into the street to retrieve it from the beggar who has picked...
Maggie Radcliffe's brand of flamboyance, as beautiful as it is ill-gotten in the eyes of less favored mortals, seems doomed. Is it, then, the beginning of a new Dark Age-or a time when interest will accrue to souls instead of money...
Daley himself has never been even remotely linked to the ill-gotten profits of cronies caught with their hands in the till, but scandal has touched his family. He never denied that in 1972 he used his influence to get the city controller to place millions of dollars worth of city insurance with an obscure suburban agency that employed his son John Patrick as a solicitor. Said Daley: "If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's this world coming to?" The mayor has also been embarrassed by the revelation...
...Wednesday night, he lambasted the liberal establishment in a heated, rambling polemic, scorning targets from the late Robert Kennedy ("slick-ass") to the conference itself ($55 registration keeps the poor out). The message was simple, and it was repeated: the people with the cash had better "cut loose" their "ill-gotten gains." He was enthusiastic as he ended, bringing half of the middle-class crowd to their feet in applause. A welfare mother from Maine, Carolyn Dow, in an unscheduled speech, knocked herself as "white trash" and then ripped into conference leaders for their middle-class orientation. Her melodramatic conclusion...
...only can happen, but is happening. A high lottery number in favorable circumstances may be an ill-gotten passport, but it is a passport nonetheless. Perhaps a fourth of the students at Harvard can safely drop out; some already have. All of a sudden dropping out involves not wishing bat acting. And now, because its vocabulary has abruptly assumed the present tense, it is worth more discussion...