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Word: illicit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Women with deep emotional conflicts, Dr. Friedgood pointed out, often show psychosexual disorders. A fairly common one: false pregnancy among i) unmarried women who feel guilty about illicit interr course, 2) wives who fear pregnancy, 3) older women who want children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Vanishing Family | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...attempted to bless with his own aphroditie charm, the eomic pace of Grouche Marx and the caustic sauciness of Woolcott. Perched giddily atop the crotic ding dong of assorted amours is a rare fruit who barely manages to sublimate his passion for Gary. This catalogue of irregular and illicit love left the bean monde opening nighters in a happy sweat. In less than two weeks the divertisement will be over two hundred miles away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 10/16/1946 | See Source »

...arrested half a dozen times for crimes ranging from plain robbery to evasion of corporation laws. His only conviction was for speeding (sentence suspended). He had been a pal of New York City's gang kingpins Dutch Schultz and Owney Madden, was suspected of being their partner in illicit breweries. The FBI had Garsson down as suspect of arranging protection for big-time bootleggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Murray Garsson's Suckers | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...amount of cutting short of a total ban can rob "Scarlet Street" of its oppressive naturalism, of its rough sketch or unpleasant characters, illicit love, and miscarried justice. That the Johnston office passed it in the first place is gratifying, for it flies in the face of the precepts of movie morality set up by Will Hays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Scarlet Street" and Sally Rand | 2/5/1946 | See Source »

Outside the pale of secret marriages is a more densely populated illicit area. In a single Dahlem block of 52 swank apartments occupied by U.S. officers, two-thirds of the tenants had German mistresses whom they supplied with coffee, cake and sandwiches from the Army mess-besides food received in packages from U.S. womenfolk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: I Thee Endow | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

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