Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into effect. Five months later, guns barked and drilled plump Diamond Jim Colosimo dead as a herring in his own restaurant. The murder was a clue to the sudden bustle in the underworld. Colosimo, owner of brothels, had tried to bite off too much of the new business in illicit booze. That killing set the pattern for many more...
...Blood") Horowitz, executed murderer. Once he went $15,000 bail for "Scratch" McCarthy, forger (now jailed). Hines explained that as an active political leader who regularly attended sporting events his friendship was sought "by persons in various walks of life"-but insisted he shared none of their illicit profits...
Bootlegging. In Philadelphia & Reading's petition under the Bankruptcy Act it cited the loss by 'legging of 4,000,000 tons annually. But this highly publicized illicit trade is no longer what it was. Several States have legislated against bootleg coal, leaving Philadelphia almost the sole market; surface outcrops suitable for bootleg mining are approaching exhaustion. Bootlegging never accounted for more than 8% of the total anthracite output, probably employed only 20,000 men at its peak. Last week the Commission guessed that it now employs...
...marry," said urbane Philosopher George Santayana, "as their fortunes prove." That women play a big part in assisting fortune was established again last month by four books on the art and science of marriage. Written for women, they cover all sides of the subject, from advice on illicit love affairs to instructions on how to can tomatoes...
From the corner curb to the stairway via Rout 1, the student takes 17 full seconds. But, employing the illegal Routue 2, he does it in 10 flat. Seven seconds, then, are wasted because of the grass plot, an architectural Frankenstein! And even if the illicit route is taken, a hedge and a tree block speedy entrance to class...