Word: illicitness
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Snorkey did not think Judge Wilkerson would give him the maximum penalty. He grinned in all directions around the courtroom, then got to his feet, hurried to an elevator, descended to the street, jumped into a waiting automobile and disappeared into the sprawling city whose thousands of illicit night haunts were his Empire...
...guns killed one and wounded four other urchins (see p. 14). Quick to evaluate a somewhat far fetched parallel between this tragedy and the plot of The Star Witness, Warner executives hurried the premiere of the picture, advertised it as "a weapon . . . to stamp out . . . gangsters and their illicit breed," devoted the proceeds of the first showing to the families of Manhattan's small victims...
...Refining Co. was interested. For the next day Dominic Tarro was to have appeared in court to be tried for conspiracy to violate the Prohibition Amendment. And great Corn Products Refining Co. was to have been a codefendant. having been charged with selling corn sugar to Dominic Tarro for illicit purposes...
...silliness. The story is by Ursula Parrott, author of famed Ex-Wife; it will probably gross several million dollars. Norma Shearer is a working girl who says, "A girl may kiss and ride on as well as any man." Yet when Neil Hamilton, her journalist lover, companion of an illicit weekend in Mexico, says a casual goodbye to her, she is seen in one of those rapid sequences indicating a shattering of feminine morale-broken scenes in which Miss Shearer dances in the arms of successive admirers, always to the accompaniment of a shrill, annoying laughter that is the keynote...
...show called Keep Kool she did an imitation of the late Louis Wolheim in The Hairy Ape. She moved through the Follies and a few other musical shows before her first straight role in The Noose. In Burlesque she made theatrical history. Another of her current pictures, Illicit, is one of the year's best...