Word: illicitness
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...Illicit Affairs? Pennsylvania's holdings in Wabash and B. & O.'s in Western Maryland the I. C. C. has long viewed as violations of the anti-trust law. Both roads were ordered to cease their illicit affairs with these weaker carriers. But last week the I. C. C. gave up its fight for corporate morality, told Pennsylvania and B. & O. to take their sweethearts openly into their homes...
...Birth Control may produce a factor in reducing illicit abortions (therapeutic abortions to save the woman's life or protect her health are legal practically everywhere), especially if more reliable contraceptive measures are discovered. (Recommended by the 80 authentic Birth Control clinics in the U. S. as nearest to perfection is the late Dr. James Fryer Cooper's combination of jell & dam. Production cost of the preparations is trifling. But like everything in the U. S. which has to do with sex, the retail cost is high. Clinics charge $1.25 for the dam, 75? for the jell. Drugstores...
...Christmas presents Mrs. Hoover paid $80 for 40 pairs of candlesticks fashioned from the copper of illicit liquor stills. They were the product of veterans undergoing occupational therapy at Walter Reed Hospital. The Washington Police Department contributed the material following 'legger raids about the city...
Possessed is calculated to have a more disastrous effect than most upon morally malleable persons who witness it. Joan Crawford, again a brunette, impersonates the mistress of a thriving politician (Clark Gable). Rich, wilful and ingratiating, he gives her the trite benefits of illicit love-an apartment with glass doors, a maid-of-all-work, fine clothes, European travel and an education in social politeness. These make an unsophisticated admirer, when they meet again, mistake her for a lady. After three years of pleasurable intimacy, Gable is threatened by a scandal. His mistress has been ennobled by experience...
...President's Daughter." In Federal court in Toledo appeared Nan Britton to press her claim to the illicit love of the 29th President of the U. S. With her was her prim and mannerly 12-year-old daughter Elizabeth Ann whom she presented to the world in her book, The President's Daughter (1927) as the bastard of President Harding, conceived in the Senate Office Building. In 1928 one Joseph de Barthe. now dead, wrote and published a thin little book entitled The Answer to "The President's Daughter" in which he defended President Harding...