Word: illicited
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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...
Suddenly the soldiers struck. Aided by U.S. Treasury Department detectives, they arrested ten growers and two officials on a Sinaloa hacienda. Then they flailed and rooted up the fields of illicit poppies...
...indicted by a federal grand jury for two violations of the Mann Act. The comedian, who married 18-year-old Oona O'Neill last June, was charged with "causing to be transported Joan Berry ... by railway . . . with the intent and purpose of having the said woman engage in illicit sex relations . . . [Indictment 1] from Los Angeles to New York" and [Indictment 2] in the other direction. Joan claims that he fathered her four-month-old daughter Carol Ann. The grand jury also accused Chaplin of conspiring with others to influence Beverly Hills Judge Charles Griffin to railroad Joan...
...course in the "ungodly" and ''sexy" modern novel back in the mid-'gos Cross acquiesced. But he slyly observed that the study of Homer's Iliad woul 1 have to be abolished from courses in Greek, for the Iliad was obviously a story about the illicit intrigue between Paris and Helen. The next year Cross gave his course in the modern novel...
...China. As he spoke, Chiang could look back on a year of compensations for hard going. Sinkiang, China's westernmost province, had crept back into the fold after ten years' illicit living with its Russian neighbor. The war had gone well enough so that many could speak of an end before the next Double Ten. There had been no important clashes with the Chinese Communists, and there was a promise on the record to call a People's Congress and adopt a democratic constitution within a year after...