Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government took stock too, and then got a grip on its stick. A dawning fact was that trucks, not subject to rationing at all, could and probably would become the source of a rushing, illicit supply...
...doing business with them or be handed over to the police. Although retailers are licensed, wholesalers are not; as many as ten middlemen in some cases may pile up their profits in the dark. The London Daily Herald has unearthed a nest of "speakeasy" restaurants dealing in illicit food supplies...
Died. Max ("Boo-Boo") Hoff, 48, tiny, roistering gambler, promoter, boxing-stable manager who made millions selling illicit liquor during Prohibition years, lost everything after Repeal, ended by running a soda-pop juke joint in West Philadelphia; apparently of an overdose of sleeping tablets; in Philadelphia...
Before European hell broke loose, the business of policing the U. S. air waves was fairly simple. With seven eavesdropping monitor stations and 26 field auxiliaries, FCC pounced easily upon illicit transmitters, inspected ship and police radios, supervised the activities of the nation's hams. But since last June, when the President authorized a $1,600,000 fund for radio's defense efforts, aerial gumshoeing put on seven-megacycle gum boots, established a special National Defense Operations Section to supplement FCC's routine monitoring work. Now under construction are four new primary monitoring stations in Texas, Alaska...
Alternately greedy and generous, Paganini made and spent a deal of money, slept in many an illicit bed, achieved the patronage of Napoleon's sister Elisa (Princess of Lucca and Piombo). Burned out in his early 50s, Paganini died in Nice at 58, a century ago last week. Few men have been so widely buried. For his sins, the Catholic Church declined to give him holy ground. Nice, Cannes, Antibes, St. Raphael refused him space. Three years later, when the Church changed its mind, Paganini was dug up from the wastes next to an olive oil factory, moved...