Word: illicited
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...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...
...aware of the philanthropist's real objectives: 1) to get his three gunmen out of the Tombs, 2) to woo the girl, 3) to frame the boy for the gunmen's jailbreak, 4) to disguise the fact that he is the sinister "Blight," the power behind the illicit drug traffic. To advance objective No. 1 he forces the young people's friend, a middle-aged keeper in the Tombs, to agree to smuggle guns to the three gunmen for a jailbreak. To advance objective No. 3, the keeper is to throw suspicion on the boy as having...
...after that he seems to have become shyer of committing himself. At least once he was proposed to (by Poetess Mary Abigail Dodge), but weaseled out of it. Between the ages of 60 and 80 he attracted poetesses particularly, but "though in two or three poems he even condoned illicit love, he retained his chastity until he died...