Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schechter reply, put by Frederick H. Wood, a Government associate in the gold clause cases, was no less orthodox. If the Government could regulate one intrastate business, it could regulate all businesses and, carried to its logical conclusion, the concept would ultimately find Congress in charge of all human activity...
...searchers found a metal box containing some $9,000 of the Fall River robbery cash, plus a sugar bag crammed with nickels. On the walls of the hidden vault they found stains which looked like blood. From under the veranda they raked some bones which they thought were human. Under the kitchen floor they found $10,000 more of the Fall River money...
...much money, paid in cash, would you eat a quarter of a pound of cooked human flesh, supposing that the fact . . . will appear next day on the front page of all the New York papers...
...darkly sardonic style, The Devil Is a Woman is a slow, rococo anecdote about the vicious sex-life of a Spanish cafe dancer (Dietrich) and the middle-aged army officer (Lionel Atwill) whose career is shattered by his morbid passion for her. Infinitely more adult in its approach to human values than such a picture as The Scoundrel (see above), this effort by one of Hollywood's most famed directors is correspondingly more childish in its manner. After winding through an interminable succession of overdecorated scenes, in which flashbacks show the progress of the love affair while the elderly...
...other words," said he, "a competent plastic surgeon, if given time, can alter every mark by which human beings are ordinarily identified. The advantage which the police still have in dealing with criminals is that the criminal is always in a hurry. And this work, to be well done, takes time...