Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Geneva, representatives of the nations of the world busied themselves in an International Congress, aimed to eliminate the illicit trade in the drug...
...divorces them with equal facility. Fay Richmond is about a man and a girl, and the realization of their love which came too late-but not too late for a still later fleeting consummation. Consuelo tells of another dazzling woman whose honor-and the physical well-being of whose illicit suitor-were saved by the opportune appearance of a cigar with a long, undisturbed ash. The Romance of Iris Poole is the tale of Red Antony and his brother Roger, of the revenge of Antony upon Roger, whom he hated even as he admired him. Michael Arlen (Dikran Kuyumjian, Armenian...
...these great ends; for the education of our youth, not only in knowledge gathered from past ages but in the wholesome virtue of selfhelp; for the protection of women and children from human greed and unequal laws; for the prevention of Child Labor and for the suppression of the illicit traffic in soul-destroying drugs. We shall conserve all the natural resources of the country and prevent the hand of monopoly from closing on them and on our water powers, so that our children after us shall find this still a fair land to dwell within. And to the veterans...
...announced its intentions for the coming Winter's season, which opens on Nov. 5. The season will be inaugurated by a revival of La Gioconda, Ponchielli's grisly, melodious thriller. First produced in Milan, in 1876, it tells in music a terrible story of love, licit and illicit, revenge, suicide, murder, Inquisition horrors and Venetian gondoliers. Giorgio Polacco will conduct. Rosa Raisa, Giacomo Rimini and Antonio Cortis, a new Spanish tenor, will sing...
...terrible story of love, licit and illicit...