Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undergraduates who are thinking of a life of crime after they get the returns on their exams could do worse than see the short "You Can't Get Away With It", produced by Universal and J. Edgar Hoover. The brutal details of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which solves ninety-seven per cent of its cases, are laid out in convincing style...
...practice, riddling targets with 600 rounds a minute, firing out of speeding cars, and at night lighting up the range with tracer bullets. A sedan disintegrates before your eyes under a few seconds of concentrated shooting from a squad. Emphasis, however, is placed on the scientific angles of crime detection, the long rooms of cross-indexed fingerprints and nicknames, the rows of white coated technicians and microscopes and test tubes. When it had to decide which knife had cut through a copper screen, the F.B.I. placed filings from the different knives and from the screen in a burner and compared...
With little advertising except a two-page "Register" of gloomy provincial hotels, the Saturday Review was most interesting when Lady Houston was most irritated at some new crime of Britain's democratic government. Articles which Lady Houston wanted to reach a wider public than the Review's top circulation of 50,000 (achieved when the price was reduced to 4?) were put on the presses as pamphlets. At such times, Lady Houston's order was: "Keep on printing until I tell you to stop!" Sometimes "Lucy" forgot to call a halt, so the printers always arbitrarily ended...
...There was last week no getting around the fact that the Nanking Government had sent out orders to begin executing on New Year's Day Chinese caught selling, buying or smoking opium, and that beginning New Year's Day nobody had been executed for that crime (TIME, Jan. 11). This, according to the Christian Marshal, was outrageous. With Old Testament fervor he demanded that the Chinese Government, many of whose members are decidedly New Testament, finish up with wholesale death what they had started. Over 100,000 addicts had been slated for execution in Peiping alone...
...stories since Public Enemy. Within its tighter limits You Only Live Once has a signature of realism no less stark and confident than the famed Warner Bros, story. It presents in addition its own modest problem in sociology: has the State a right to punish a man for a crime committed due to pressure put upon him through a miscarriage of justice? Producer Walter Wanger leaves the conclusion to the audience, having arranged as a tacit persuader Eddie's doomed and breath-taking flight toward the Canadian border with his wife, Joan (Sylvia Sidney). Justice works out a satisfactory...