Word: illicitness
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...federal alcohol tax unit arrested the chief of Charleston (S.C.) County's police and eight of his cops, charged them with convoying moonshine for friendly bootleggers, and engaging in the whole, sale sale of illicit whiskey themselves...
Besides having the most complete horticultural and botanical collection in America, and doubling as a park and illicit picnic ground for Boston residents, the Arboretum has contributed to many "practical" projects. During the war its directors developed natural camouflage techniques and wrote a handbook for the Army on emergency food plants of the South Pacific...
Last week, Austrian police arrested eight Direktors (department heads) of the Creditanstalt, including the chief of its ECA bureau, on charges involving "millions of dollars" of illicit currency deals. They hinted that some others also would be arrested. It remained to be seen what responsibility, if any, would be at tached to Joseph Joham, who has progressed so profitably through depression, Anschluss, war and chaotic peace...
This is one of the oldest stories in the world, and Author Vittorini, like most of those who have retold it, has failed to avoid seamy sentimentality. His prostitute, aflame with love on one burner and cooking up illicit narcotic deals on the other, seems to Mainardi to be "The Madonna on Horseback"; but to the reader she is just a pipe dream. When the cops put her away at the end of the book, it is no more poignant than a decision by the gas company to lock up the meter...
...Mollie's nerves are taut as piano strings. She throws hysterical fits, fluffs her lines on the set. Running off the unpromising dailies (rushes), Mike buries himself in booze and Benzedrine. The movie and the illicit love affair have a sudden downbeat ending. A sculptor lures Mollie off to Mexico and death by pneumonia. Even with this morbid added feature, the sneak preview of Mike's film draws laughs in the wrong places and he knows he has produced a flop, and probably his last picture. "It's a dying town . . . the last days of Pompeii...