Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drink, indeed--perhaps not nearly so many drink as drank before--but much drinking, if spasmodic, is deeper and more reckless than ever. Strong drink is carried about by men and even boys, and is shared by them, and taken to excess, with a sort of illicit eagerness, by many who in the days of freedom passed it by. It may even be said that some are drinking to a hurtful extent for no better reason than to "prove that they can get it." Drinking is common at dancing parties where in pre-amendment days it was never thought...
...question arises whether the condition can be corrected with new legislation. Is this the real crisis of the amendment, or is it merely an unavoidable halting point in the adjustment of the law to the situation? Does the illicit sale and wide-spread use of spirits prove that national prohibition is something which the people will not have, and that it will be necessary to repeal the amendment? There are many who think so, but in view of the way in which prohibition swept the country, with an almost unanimous ratification by the States, it should be evident that...
...York news columns for some time past come the startling reports of the corruption of the police officials, which cannot but reflect on the present administration. Perhaps the satellites of the Enright regime have overstepped and taken in too much hush money for "restoring" stolen automobiles and furthering the illicit liquor traffic...
There is a lesson in this tale of woe. It has been demonstrated that in this case, as elsewhere, the persons who wave the flag, make the "eagle scream," and are most volubly interested in the preservation of "personal liberty" are the gentlemen engaged in illicit liquor peddling and their idea of the "pursuit of happiness" which is guaranteed by the constitution goes very little farther than the privilege of profit...
...Professor Hocking will deliver Dudleian Lecture on "Illicit Naturalizing of Religion" in Emerson...