Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Telephone Girl (Madge Bellamy, Holbrook Blinn). A political boss uncovers illicit love in his opponent's past. But he needs the name of the lady involved to make the scandal complete. After a frantic search pivoting about the telephone girl, he discovers the faintly scarlet woman is his daughter. Speedy melodrama capably acted...
...Illicit Farewell. News organs in Mexico City were incensed last week at the act of an overscrupulous policeman who forcibly separated one Señor G. D. de Orihuela from his wife, as they were vigorously embracing in a public place. "We were waiting for a street car," said Señora de Orihuela. "My husband was about to leave me for some time...
...meaningless. My sense of humor protects me from applying the word 'Dry' to those supporters of a policy which has filled this nation, from Atlantic to Pacific, from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande, with a traffic in intoxicating liquor, wholesale and retail, that is illicit, illegal, untaxed and stupendously profitable...
...Elements in the Christian church to which the community has a right to look for enlightened spiritual guidance are scrambling to exploit childhood in the hope of profits as illicit, of their kind, as any ever wrung by a conscienceless manufacturer from the labor of children at the loom. In the name of evangelism - that sacred word that has been defiled so often that it is at last almost a common butt - this horrible thing is being done." Readers wondered what the Christian Century was driving at. The author of the piece quickly made it clear that he was discussing...
...Dempsey. All through the fight Sharkey chopped and hacked at Wills, closed his eye, made his mouth bleed; all through the fight the referee skipped between the two saying, "Don't do that; don't do that." Wills was the offender; in every break he swung over illicit punches; he hit backhanded; he butted Sharkey with his hard, black head. Perhaps Wills only did these things from force of habit; he has long been famed in the ring for his sharp practices, as also for his tireless pursuit of a match with Dempsey. But old black Wills will...