Word: illicitness
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...House came word the President would recommend to the next Congress vigorous measures to prevent the " bootlegging" of inadmissible aliens. It is said that smuggling of aliens has developed into as much of a business as rum running; any inadmissible alien can enter the country for $500; streams of illicit immigrants are pouring in from Cuba, Mexico and British Columbia...
...from the Bahamas in 1923 at the present rate of export. The Springfield Republican points an interesting parallel between rum smuggling and slave smuggling prior to the Civil War, which makes this figure seem rather insignificant. The importation of slaves to the United States was forbidden in 1808, but illicit trade continued over 50 years until the Civil War and the Declaration of Emancipation. England was against the slave trade, too, and not commercially interested in its continuance, as she now is in the rum traffic. But in 1858, according to the calculation of Stephen A. Douglas, 15,000 slaves...
...perhaps a shock to certain industrious vendors, to learn that their wares are illicit; and it will be an equal shock to many of their patrons. The recent court decision would apply equally to the College: lectures, until printed, are the property of the professors, and their sale for the profit of another person is illegal. In the College, however, leniency has been shown; many courses are largely an accumulation of fact, which can be conveniently condensed into notes; and such vest-pocket editions, properly used, do little harm. But in courses which are intended to develop processes of thinking...
...Having illicit communications with the Archbishop of Canterbury...
...Harrison, where the benign sedatives dispensed by Zane Grey and Harold Bell Wright are comparatively scarce. The Klan riots in country towns, out of the route of the urban newspaper syndicates with their penny thrilllers every afternoon. And it is a notorious fact that crimes of passion and illicit intrigues are commoner, compared with the population, and more violent in rural communities than in the cities...