Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peabody presented a Dry credo of 14 points. Excerpts: "We believe in the Volstead Act which limits alcoholic content to one half of one percent. No other standard would be safe for children"; "we believe the buyer is equally guilty with the seller in illicit transactions in liquor"* "we believe that the press . . . ought to give fair representation of the views of law-abiding citizens rather than continue attacks on the law" "we believe there is no authority for submitting the Constitution, in whole or in part, to a national referendum...
...racket has appeared at Harvard, and almost simultaneous with its arrival, a means of combatting it has been devised. A pair of ingenious go-getting bootleggers recently hit upon a novel means of increasing their effectiveness as salesmen of illicit spirits. They had tried arguments supporting the authenticity of their liquors; they had worn stiff collars, shined their shoes, brushed their hair, and worn pleasant smiles on their unrefined countenances...
Author David Herbert Lawrence's latest novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, had to be printed privately in Paris, pirated editions in the U. S. and England were book-legged to collectors of erotica. Authorities almost unanimously adjudged it obscene, pornographic. It was the story of an illicit love affair between an English lady and the gamekeeper on her husband's estate: all details were given, all Anglo-Saxon unprintable words were printed. Author Lawrence defended his book, attacked the literary pirates who had stolen it, in a preface (published separately last year...
Because it suggests how completely disagreeable the results of man's illicit motions toward pleasure are apt to be, this play is more persuasive than the outline would indicate. George Abbot presents an effortless, natural portrait of the casual Westchester man-of-letters. Edwin Phillips, as the son, is that great dramatic rarity ?an accomplished, likeable adolescent...
Joseph. The Biblical Joseph was an earnest and moral slave who repulsed the advances of the wife of his master Potiphar, because he was grateful for Potiphar's kindness and wanted no illicit fun in the first place. Joseph's nobility suffers in the theatrical version of him conceived by Playwright Bertram Bloch and performed by George Jessel. They make it quite clear that he balked at adultery not because of lofty scruples, but because he was afraid Neris would ultimately fling him to the crocodiles, her customary farewell to outworn lovers. Actor Jessel, swarthy, expressive young Hebrew...