Word: crimes
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...maternal or infant deaths; 2) it exposes the newborn infant to hospital-prevalent diseases (notably diarrhea) and the scientific inhumanity of doctors and nurses. Separating the baby from its mother at birth, instead of allowing it to be cuddled and breastfed, is a bad beginning, says Dr. Bakwin. The crime is compounded when the baby is put on a clock-ruled feeding schedule, a practice which is almost bound to produce overanxiety in parents and loss of appetite in children...
Paradoxical cause of all such argument is that patents are legalized monopolies, issued and protected under one federal law, while another federal law makes the use of those monopolies a crime if undertaken with intent to restrain trade. Conscious criminal intent is not found among respectable businessmen, and even where it occurs is impossible to prove...
Thou Shalt Not Drink. The Code is a specific, relatively short (about 4,000 words) list of prohibitions covering Crime, Sex, Vulgarity, Obscenity, Profanity, Costume, Dances, Religion, Locations (i.e., bedrooms), National Feelings. (Sample rule, under Crime: "The use of liquor in American life, when not required by the plot or for proper characterization, will not be shown.") Under its provisions, the 28 member-companies of M.P.P.D.A. consult the Hays Office on every step in the making of a picture, from the purchase of a story idea to exhibition. If critics com plain that such prohibitions result in a childishly unrealistic...
Said Defense Lawyer Comandini: "Were it not for Fascism, which encouraged political crime, Koch might have been an honest man. I have a photograph of him when a boy where he has his head on his mother's lap. That is the Koch I am defending. A lad gone astray under a tyranny which encouraged cruelty...
That's the Spirit (Universal) climbs likably if loutishly aboard one of the only two "trends" discernible in rudderless current movies. Like Wonder Man and Where Do We Go From Here?, it is a comic fantasy. (The other trend, well represented by Conflict-see above-is crime melodrama with Freudian parsley...