Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love and then go out and try to reproduce what they see there because they think that is what the modern collegian must do to be up to date. Our vice squad tells me that it is a common practice for students who intend to spend the night in illicit sex adventures first to attend a movie to sharpen their mood. That is why we have more trouble with rooming houses located near theatres than with all others. Many people, in judging the significance of American influence in the Philippines, believe that the movies play a large and undesirable part...
...through all sorts of racketeering. He was pained and surprised that the Government taxed such incomes. Said he: "I talked with a half a dozen attorneys and they didn't know any more than I did. In 1926 the Circuit Court of Appeals held that income from illicit sources could not be taxed. The next year the Supreme Court ruled differently. I have never committed a crime of moral turpitude. I have never done anything that is condemned by society as morally wrong. I didn't pay income taxes because the laws were not clear. But if society...
...seat. Evidence of inter-party truce (TIME, Nov. 17) was the presentation of an administration-backed $60,000,000 drought-relief appropriation bill by Democrat James Benjamin Aswell of Louisiana. Roy Orchard Woodruff of Michigan offered a bill to give the Federal Government jurisdiction over gangster murders resulting from illicit interstate negotiations. He said: "It is repeatedly charged that gunmen from one State are . . . imported into another State to 'put on the spot' . . . rival gangsters." Charles R. Crisp of Georgia introduced an entirely new, voluminous tariff bill...
After 1876, when it was purchased by the late Richard Kyle Fox, the Gazette acquired a certain complaisance; the Richardson case became in retrospect "the most beautiful of illicit love tragedies.'' But under Publisher Fox's energetic direction the Gazette became not only a famed arbiter and promoter of sporting events, but a sensational forerunner of today's tabloids. The No. 1 writer was Samuel A. Mackeever who, as "Paul Prowler" and "The Old Rounder," showed the way for modern broadway colyumists. In its new pink dress, with full page drawings of dashing males cavorting with...
...size and source of the personal wealth of Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague, Democratic Boss of New Jersey, has long been one of the State's chief political mysteries. Suspicion that the size was large and the source illicit cut his normal 7-to-1 majority down to 3-to-2 when he was re-elected last year (TIME, May 27, 1929). Two Republican legislative committees had cited him for contempt when he refused all information on his financial affairs. Cleared of contempt by the courts, he sailed for Europe (TIME, Sept. 9, 1929), returned...