Word: illicitness
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This time Cinderella is called Tamara Todhunter. Convent-bred (Mrs. Norris is a Catholic), Tamara goes forth into a wicked world with resolutions about life that do not stand up when a honey-tongued cinemactor comes a-wooing. Trouble arrives with the child of their illicit union, but virtue triumphs when Tamara gets herself an honest-to-goodness husband named George who is willing to be a father by proxy...
...There is a striking inconsistency between the removal of prohibition from liquor [for which Mr. Smith fought] and the placing of prohibition upon a movement which by actual results, has everywhere been hailed as a blessing and in no instances has been cited as the source of immorality or illicit relations, or disruptive of conjugal happiness...
...Illicit sexual indulgence," report the Gluecks, "was the chief form of their adolescent and early-adult misbehavior. All but 2% of our women had been sexually irregular prior to their commitment to the reformatory. . . . In fact, a fifth of the girls had their first unconventional sex experience before they were 15, and their average age at such time was but 17 years. Illicit sexuality was practically simultaneous with the onset of other forms of delinquency. . . . Four-fifths of the girls entered upon unconventional sexual practices voluntarily. In the vast majority of cases these erotic adventures were shared with casual acquaintances...
...this illicit parturition...
...speakeasy. Many people say that repeal will not end the speakeasy; they claim that it will be able to undersell the legal restaurants and taverns. This is impossible, for to exist they must charge exorbitant prices in order to meet the expense of bringing in or making the illicit liquor. Who will pay prices that are equal to, if not more than, our prices to go speaking around drinking bad liquor...