Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ghostbuster. Before he died he promised to communicate with her from the grave if possible. Many have been her attempts, all futile, to talk with him. Often she has been approached by mediums who claimed spiritual contact, but she knew they were all faking. She and Houdini prearranged a code, in which no medium has yet brought word from...
...number and combination, one is put through instantly. Thus it happened, in the Pankhurst days of violent "Suffragets " that Queen Mary received the terrible shock of answering her boudoir telephone and having rudely shouted at her: "Are you for votes for women?" The Suffragets had wormed the secret code out of Miss Constance Selby, the Queen's dresser, for whose ability to arrange tastefully a shop-window-full of diadems on the royal person (see front cover) Her Majesty had such respect that she did not discharge the wretch...
...Year's Day Mexico adopted a new criminal code abolishing the death penalty for murder, abolishing trial by jury in criminal cases. Before Mexico's First Penal Court last week came Murderers Dionoso ("Diablo") Corono and Pascasio Gonzales, charged with slaying one Jose Valdes, his wife and his daughter. Horrified and excited by testimony that the murders had been committed with extreme and unprintable ferocity, the judges lost their heads, forgot that the new law curtails their powers, and pronounced sentence of death "on these two Devils...
When New York State passed its Baumes Laws under which four-time felons are automatically imprisoned for life, some States copied this severe code, while others watched critically its operation as a penological experiment. Only executive clemency could save convicts from the machine-like precision of these criminal statutes. Last week other States saw New York send its first woman to jail for life under their stiff provisions. She was Ruth St. Clair, 30, kleptomaniac. Her fourth offense was stealing from Manhattan's John Wanamaker store $121 worth of dresses and baby ware for which she had no need...
...Canadian amateur clubs put on a far faster and more interesting game under the amateur code than do the American college teams, with their back-checking style of play. There is no doubt about the fact that the players themselves like a speedy open struggle, but whether the adoption of the Code Calder would solve the problem is open to question. Any changes should certainly be subject to the approval of those who are playing the game, and the results of tonight's University Club-B. H. C. contest will be watched with interest...