Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of a great lady, married to a respectable lord, and trying (out of noble motives) to conceal a long-past love affair. She is unaware that her illicit child still lives to commemorate her indiscretions...
...shipper, and the youngest was no doubt fathered by the lynx-eyed Lawyer-but the Doctor, who fostered this gossip by certifying Oliver's sterility, bore a time-honored grudge against both shipper and lawyer. So Oliver continued squabbling, capitalizing his crippled state, trespassing on distant islands for illicit loot-birds' eggs and eiderdown which he smuggled on stormy nights to transient English sailors. "Small things and great occur, a tooth falls out of the jaw, a man out of the ranks, a sparrow to the ground...
...Common Sin, variously known as Bobo's Bargain, Bad Debts and Paid Off, came out of the shop, stumbled through a quadrangle of illicit love, polished off a polite off-stage murder, ended sweetly. Its author, Willard Mack, also wrote the current and noisy Gang...
...thatch roof, rambler roses, flagstones-he settles down to his writing, she commutes to her London theatre. Every midnight he meets her in the two-seater, serves her supper at the blazing hearth, listens to her footlight triumphs. In short, he is so thoroughbred that she succumbs to the illicit blandishments of the leading man in her show. Fond Michael, suddenly informed, spoils the matinée idol's beauty with a black eye and bloody nose. The wife repents...
...Southern bride arranges for the retention of her husband's physical affections; the second half with the green hats, coral gowns, and visceral sensations of the girl who, ten years later, falls heir to those affections. Not that he, a chivalrous Southern gentleman, would involve her in an illicit relation, but as soon as his established reputation as rail-road president permits of a divorce. . . . Fortunately for his wife, he dies before she finds evidence for her perpetual suspicions, and she is able to wear "victorious" widow's weeds, rather than the dreaded badge of Reno...