Word: illicited
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...drink, indeed--perhaps not nearly so many drink as drank before--but much drinking, if spasmodic, is deeper and more reckless than ever. Strong drink is carried about by men and even boys, and is shared by them, and taken to excess, with a sort of illicit eagerness, by many who in the days of freedom passed it by. It may even be said that some are drinking to a hurtful extent for no better reason than to "prove that they can get it." Drinking is common at dancing parties where in pre-amendment days it was never thought...
...York news columns for some time past come the startling reports of the corruption of the police officials, which cannot but reflect on the present administration. Perhaps the satellites of the Enright regime have overstepped and taken in too much hush money for "restoring" stolen automobiles and furthering the illicit liquor traffic...
There is a lesson in this tale of woe. It has been demonstrated that in this case, as elsewhere, the persons who wave the flag, make the "eagle scream," and are most volubly interested in the preservation of "personal liberty" are the gentlemen engaged in illicit liquor peddling and their idea of the "pursuit of happiness" which is guaranteed by the constitution goes very little farther than the privilege of profit...
...Professor Hocking will deliver Dudleian Lecture on "Illicit Naturalizing of Religion" in Emerson...
...basis with all other nations, as soon as she carries out all the obligations of the peace imposed upon her. The only argument in favor of such a move seems to be a hope that Germany as a League member can be better watched and more regularly inspected for illicit accumulation of war materials, than as a non-member. If the peace terms are as adequate and effective as it is hoped, such inspection will be carried on quite thoroughly enough in any case. When Germany enters the League, she should not do so as a vanquished nation requiring especial...