Word: slayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mexican Penal Code, promulgated to become effective Dec. 15, also makes it no crime for a father to slay both his deceived daughter and her deceiver...
Mexico: A husband who kills his rival or a wife who kills her rival shall not be liable to any punishment, but the killing shall be recorded, and, should the same killer slay a second rival, he or she may be tried for murder...
Jealousy (Paramount). Louis Verneuil's play was much praised on Broadway last season for technical cleverness -its only characters were the ex-mistress of a boulevardier, her new husband, an all-too-human telephone. Maddened by things he heard over the wire, the husband finally went out to slay the other man. This story has now been made into a sound cinema. The unseen lover appears, but to no advantage. Jeanne Eagels as the wife employs a ridiculous English accent, the action is turgid, the photo-graphs dull. Silliest shot: Frederic March taking time out to suppress his justifiable...
...excellent a parable on the mystery of evil that every man can read into it the drama of his own experience. "Mr. D. H. Lawrence sees in the conflict a battle between the blood-consciousness of the white race and its own abstract intellect, which attempts to hunt and slay it: Mr. Percy Boynton sees in the whale all property and vested privilege, laming the spirit of man: Mr. Van Wyck Brooks has found in the white whale an image like that of Grendel in Beowulf, expressing the Northern consciousness of the hard fight against the elements; while...
...Slay! Slay...