Word: coded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manchu. One of the most minor instances of his genius was the introduction of the shoulder-sling to the East Side, supplanting the unlovely bulge to the back trousers pocket that had been decreed by police custom. He it was who did away with the old gangster's code, under which to pump a man's back full of soft-nose bullets had been a faux pas bordering upon actual cowardice...
...There is no place in the world where there is a higher code of honor and ethics than in Wall Street. Every day transactions involving millions of dollars are carried on over the telephone without the suggestion of a signature or a written commitment. Any man or any institution showing the slightest disposition not to play fair is not allowed to play...
...letters of even the smallest college team which invades the Stadium. These manoeuvres between the halves are at best but a gesture, and as such they were better not done at all than done ungracefully. If there are to be bands at football games, let them follow the accepted code of football bands, and return the compliments of rival musicians...
Bridge addicts by thousands devoured eagerly the first recognized code of laws for Contract Bridge issued last week by the Whist Club...
Crime. State Senator Caleb H. Baumes of New York stated the view of crime which underlies the drastic criminal code written by him and lately enacted in his state. "Crime as a problem is mainly concerned with the hardened repeater ... an organized business comparing favorably with the methods employed by our best concerns. . . . The modern bandit shows no mercy whatsoever. . . . These Baumes laws have been passed in order to put real backbone into the work of the judiciary...