Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would-be successor Diamond was. Both were assailed in a hotel bedroom. Both staggered out, were carried by the same doctor to the same hospital, to the same room. Both were married, both refused to tell the police who shot them, both believing (with the police) in the underworld code...
...Three! has for its principal character one Nordson (Arthur Byron, warden of The Criminal Code), motor tycoon, whose young U. S. guest has secretly married a taxidriver. It takes Mr. Byron upwards of an hour and a great deal of telephoning and ordering about to get the driver transformed into a gentleman financier, suitable to the young lady's parents, whose arrival is imminent...
...civilization is simply imitation. The so-called educated man of whom our generation is so proud, only repeats in parrot fashion the knowledge inherited from the past, is lacking in the intellectual audacity necessary for true progress. The big-brained animal has created an artificial material environment and moral code for himself, has not developed sufficient brainpower to use his creation wisely...
...American citizenry. After ten years of a notable experiment in which one thousand lives, millions of dollars, racketeering, and the worst corruption of public office in the history of the United States, have all been heaped helter-skelter in the crucible of the experimenters, with a new code of lawlessness and immorality as the only product, "the time has come" for a true test of the continuance or disappearance of the eighteenth amendment. The November elections are the battleground...
...service should characterize all who, through the privileges of university training, have been particularly equipped in mind and in character for the duties of citizenship." The familiar phrase "noblesse oblige" implies that there is for those of superior calibre, those who have had opportunities greater than the average, a code which exacts loftier conduct than the ordinary code requires...