Word: illicitness
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...Committee is taking no chances on stirring up another such witches brew as the one which has just been allowed to cool. Seasonably forewarned by the effects of Dr. Butler's statements and the fiery denunciations of his opponents, they have wisely chosen to stifle any thoughts of illicit festivity, which might be taking shape in the minds of irresponsible graduates...
Vodka bootlegging in Siberia was said to be thriving despite severe restrictions imposed by the Soviet authorities. Peasants do the bootlegging for the most part, because they find that they can get more for their grain by using it for distilling the illicit beverage than by selling it to the Government. According to the Pravda, Moscow journal, grain to the value of more than $3,000,000 was used last year in the manufacture of vodka...
When very drunk, let her calmly suggest living in illicit arrangement with a prosaic manufacturer who has been courting her with bovine persistence...
...last I have read a story of modern society life that is not actually coarse with the grewsome details of an illicit love; at last I have found an author who, with all the opportunity in the world, refuses to revel in blasphemy and obscenity. This does not mean that "The Gay Ones" is fit for wide distribution among the Sunday schools of the country--for there is illicit love, and a dear innocent little girl is born of necessarily bad parents, but it is all told in a "nice" way, with a great deal left to the imagination...
...every part of the world where they were allowed to be dumped. Yet, because the mark fell so rapidly, there was always a large adverse trade balance. Purchase of foreign securities to pay reparations merely Bolshevized the mark. Capital was exported, undoubtedly a good deal of it for illicit speculation, and a tax on capital became impossible. Germans knew that the only chance of ever being able to pay cash to the Allies lay in creating a favorable trade balance with which to buy foreign securities. They reproached the Allies for not having given them adequate aid in their...