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     Mike wrote --   
      
   > In the old B&W movies, post-code, they used to tell people to "go to the   
   > Devil!"  I remember Bettie Davis doing that in at least one movie.   
      
     In pre-code days (from around 1929-34) films were rather explicit.  Not   
   all, but some.     
     One film, "Midnight Mary" was about a prostitute and one scene had her   
   luring some fella to her apartment.  Post code it was redone but merely with   
   her smiling and the fella following.  One knew from that few second scene   
   what was up.   
     After the code was enforced by Joseph Breen writers had to be more   
   inventive.  Several have written of those days it was how to say something   
   without   
   saying something and they had to be imaginative.     
     To me that is a good thing since it causes one to think before they   
   speak.   
     Joe   
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