Word: illicited
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There "knock-out" is a kind of smart chicanery by which art dealers reap illicit gains. Instead of bidding against each other, they obtain valuable objects at insignificant cost by forming a pool and appointing a representative to bid for them. Whatever is bought in the interests of the pool is sold again to private individuals or at other auctions and the profits divided. It was an open secret among the Trade in London that the Leverhulme "knock-out" would net its participants approximately half a million dollars out of the pockets of the estate...
...incidental result of this phase of the inquiry has been to reveal the extent to which the illicit liquor traffic has become a means of comparative opulence to many families that formerly were on the records of relief agencies. In one New England industrial town a row of sombre tenements has been adorned by Stutz and Packard cars, purchased with the profits of a new-found illicit livelihood...
...police confiscated 12,000 of the circulars of voodoo doctor D. Alexander as they were being distributed among the dingy houses by six negro boys. The cache of the abominable illicit medicines which he offered for sale could not, however, be located...
...Haynes, U. S. Prohibition Commissioner, celebrating the completion of his fourth year in office, announced : "The big bootleg operator is making his last stand, as successful enforcement of the prohibition law closes one source of illicit liquor supply after another...
...illicit magazine did, however, penetrate beyond Boston. Reading it, many felt that apologies to the National Flag and to public purity were by no means all the debt the Lampoons editors had incurred. They had roundly insulted the real Literary Digest. They had insulted the publishers of the real Literary Digest. They had insulted, moreover, the readers of the real Literary Digest-that large portion of the public* that is grateful to the Digest for its weekly service of clipping, collating and publishing, at exhaustive length and with admirable lack of editorial color, a significant mass of opinion on news...