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...happens this observer, thanks to the utmost kindness of a Harvard brethren, has a copy of that magazine and, here's where the frustration comes in, we can't see what's so damn sexually illicit about...
...their mentor's old rackets-the bookie room, the call houses, the gambling joints, the numbers games and the dope runs. Striving for real class-the quiet stuff-they had moved into riches and power that Al never dreamed of. The trick was done by plowing their illicit earnings into legitimate channels. One man who knew plenty about "The Outfit" of 1950 was William J. Drury, a handsome Irish ex-pug who joined the police force 26 years...
...first the case seemed a mere formality. Luther Eustis, a sternly God-fearing farmer of middle age, had confessed the murder of Beulah Ross, the sexy teenager who ran away with him for an illicit two-week idyll. But when Parker Nowell took Farmer Eustis' case, that changed matters a bit. Lawyer Nowell was a sour misogynist but he was also a brilliant courtroom tactician who "never took a case unless it was hopeless, and it was a long way from hopeless" when...
...American film plots are pervaded by false appearances ... It is in false appearances that the forbidden wishes are realized ... In a false appearance the heroine is promiscuous, the hero is a murderer, the young couple carry on an illicit affair . . . This device makes it possible for us to eat our cake and have it, since we can enjoy the suggested wish-fulfillments without emphatic guilt . . . American films [contend] that we should not feel guilty for mere wishes...
...night last week, while socialites gathered around the illicit green gaming tables of the recently reopened Quitan-dinha Hotel at Petropolis, Baby stepped to the door, blew a shrill blast on a police whistle. As the guests scampered out, Baby tipped his straw hat to them. Another time, when he visited New York, he booked a suite of eight rooms in a Park Avenue hotel, rang up various girl friends and gave a continuous house party...