Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture scrupulously explains, zombies are a superstition. But it adds that "wherever there is a superstition, you will find there is also a fact." Voodoo is still esoterically practiced in Haiti. The Penal Code, Article 249, reads: "If, after the administration of such substances [drugs to induce a coma-like death] the person has been buried, the act shall be considered murder, no matter what result follows." No scientist has investigated zombies. But reports indicate that the term means people who have died of disease, old age or wounds and. before decomposition, been reanimated. White Zombie combines voodoo murder prac...
...Crimes for which the penal code inflicts life imprisonment, namely: high treason, incendiarism, causing explosions or floods and damaging railway lines shall be punishable by death. Similarly capital punishment may be inflicted in a case of lesser treason, for inciting to riot and committing acts of violence in connection therewith...
...temperance forces to cooperate with him in his present challenge to the speakeasy, the bootlegger, the corrupt politician and the gangster! He believes that when sincere temperance people understand his motives they will back his Crusade, since the principles he stands for are practically the same code of the principles the W. C. T. U. adopted when present-day grey-haired mothers were children in short dresses." Focus. Last week Wet & Dry eyes turned to Congress, ultimate focus of their next big fight. There they beheld frothy turmoil over legalizing beer, heard noisy clamor for immediate Repeal. Beneath surface politics...
...blame upon: "The inefficiency and disorder of its management, the dependence upon speculative real-estate dealers which hampers it in its purchases of land, the costliness of its methods, the exorbitant rates of its financing, the obstructive tactics of its labor, the complication and stupidity of the building code and taxing laws which beset it." In measuring how far the housing industry has lagged behind the Industrial Revolution, FORTUNE found that whereas the $5,000 automobile of 1911 now sells for $2,000, the $20.000 house of 1911 still sells for $40,000. Pointing out the frontier still...
...Morals For Old (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). One thing that helps this picture is the nonchalance with which the characters in it betray the Hays code. The daughter (Margaret Perry) of a respectable household attaches the affections of a married man. Instead of disowning her, her father (Lewis Stone) tries to be helpful. The girl's brother (Robert Young) goes to Paris to study art, leaving his mother (Laura Hope Crews) to pine and die. There are no penalties herein attached to inconsiderateness and immorality. The girl weds her lover tardily divorced-and bears him twins. Her brother, failing...