Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harrison, where the benign sedatives dispensed by Zane Grey and Harold Bell Wright are comparatively scarce. The Klan riots in country towns, out of the route of the urban newspaper syndicates with their penny thrilllers every afternoon. And it is a notorious fact that crimes of passion and illicit intrigues are commoner, compared with the population, and more violent in rural communities than in the cities...
Every once in a while a murder is committed that unites in one "news story" all the sleeping romantic fancies of human nature. Such a murder is the Dorothy King case. It has love (and illicit love-which is always more fascinating), riches, social prestige, an underworld motif, intrigue and violence. It appeals to snobbery, outraged morality, pity, terror and man's appetite for the human hunt. Thousands of plain people, reading the lurid three-page account in the Hearst press, can imagine themselves either the beautiful Broadway butterfly, Dorothy King; the rich and socially prominent "angel...
This fleet is said to be terrorized by a rum pirate called the Gray Ghost, a big steel trawler, which raids the rum ships and steals their cargoes. Being engaged in illicit trade themselves they are afraid to appeal to the United States or to the British Government, whose flag they usually fly for protection...
...From my personal observation I know that the violation of the law has increased a great deal since last year. I do not attribute this, however, to a more widespread disrespect for the law, but to the fact that the illicit liquor business has just become well organized. It took this trade a long time to get under way after the act was first passed...
...These mangled dramas are thrilling and horrible to an unusual degree. But beside being selected from a very special field of the drama of Japan, they give a very unfair picture of oriental life. In each of the five plays the prime minister is dissolute, carrying on an illicit and brutal love affair with a Gelsha girl: In no one of them does the scene get far away from the parlor of a Gelsha house. Mr. Duran, with a literary cruelty seldom seen before, has represented as typical of the "Plays of Old Japan" a special type of drama, which...