Word: illicitness
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...this woman." Surrogate O'Brien decided for Charlotte Fixel. His ruling entitled her to sue for a widow's share in the Erlanger estate. Said he in a 500-page decision: "The real picture [of the evidence] presents a union of two sympathetic persons, for a time illicit but not because of a lack of matrimonial intent; a decade of mutual fidelity unstained by even a suggestion of difference or inconsistency; a blending of two lives such as are lived by the average husband and wife faithfully devoted to each other. . . . The relationship of husband and wife...
Your article on illicit traffic in narcotics in the Near East, appearing in TIME of April 3 (p. 14), would give one the impression that the Government of Bulgaria is winking at a big illicit production of opium...
When Kernel Pasha drove the illicit manufacturers out of Turkey some of them began secret operations in Bulgaria. At first the Bulgarian police, inexperienced in such things, were none too quick in detecting and suppressing the traffic. Recently, however, the Bulgarian authorities have proved themselves alert and effective in suppressing the traffic, as is indicated by the bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of State, issued Feb. 23, 1933 which says in part: "The prompt action of the Bulgarian authorities in this matter, evidence as it is of their desire to cooperate in the international effort to suppress...
Chief Russell was glad to report that when Turkey's Dictator Kemal Pasha announced last December that he was joining the world fight on illicit opium, Kemal meant what he said. Three huge Turkish opium factories have been closed. By the Ghazi's orders poppy cultivation has been "limited to the actual needs of medicine and science...
...Moscow cupboards she keeps tons of jam (most Russians fancy gooseberry with the seeds left in). Lately this cupboard has been almost bare. Nine greedy Comrades, including the Warehouse Manager, have been stealing jam (especially gooseberry), peddling it for sky-high prices on Moscow's illicit "open markets." Last week they squealed confessions, begged mercy...