Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this illicit parturition...
...speakeasy. Many people say that repeal will not end the speakeasy; they claim that it will be able to undersell the legal restaurants and taverns. This is impossible, for to exist they must charge exorbitant prices in order to meet the expense of bringing in or making the illicit liquor. Who will pay prices that are equal to, if not more than, our prices to go speaking around drinking bad liquor...
...state as "Manchukuo" and insisting that its territory is the rightful property of China, Mr. Fuller, while careful not to mention Japan by name, denounced the regime behind puppet Regent Henry Pu Yi for increasing the opium output of Manchukuo by every means and making it a centre for illicit dealing.in every form of homegrown and smuggled opium. Pamphlets dropped from airplanes, charged Mr. Fuller, instruct Manchukuo farmers in the best ways of growing opium. Stamped on the new money of Manchukuo, he sarcastically observed, is "a beautiful poppy in full bloom!"-an opium poppy. Of the Manchukuo Opium Monopoly...
...beards, a megalomaniac, a religious fanatic who places propaganda stickers on hats and windows, a great actress, a press agent, Christus and Judas from Murenberg, a business man and his secretary seeking a quiet nook for illicit love; such is the assortment on the Twentieth Century going from Chicago to New York. Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, the authors of "Twentieth Century," have no doubt, been influenced by Grand Hotel; the scene of action jerks back and forth from compartment to compartment giving us an illusion of what happens on trains while we snore peacefully...
...because they are forced to, and they will take part in the classroom discussions as perfunctorily as they swallow the rest of the dubious instruction daily forced down their unwilling throats, but when left to themselves they are sure to attend movies containing a plentiful supply of gangsters, gin, illicit love, and shots of Miss Ginger Rogers disrobing. Even should some enterprising teacher take her pupils to a genuinely amusing cinema, the task of discussing it would undoubtedly provide some embarrassing problems. Consider, for example, a class of tenth or ninth graders toying with the moral implications of "Reunion...