Here we have a shot of a raid in 1922. But this raid wasn’t on a speakeasy, brothel or illegal gambling joint. It was carried out on a beach. The crime? Knees. Too many of them – or, rather, two many of them – were visible. And you know, we can’t have women walking around in bathing suits showing too many knees. Why, these women should have been wearing birkas. That would have showed the proper moral restraint. Wait a minute! A woman can be arrested for wearing a birka. I guess it’s just as bad to show no knees as too many.
America has come a long way in a century. In 1917, three years before the 19th Amendment, women were being denied the right to vote in many parts of the country, their paychecks went to their husbands and it was not uncommon for women to inherit property. (Their husbands could, even if the inheritance was from her family.)
Like I said, we’ve come a long way in a century. [See my books at https://authormasterminds.com/master-of-the-impossible-crime.]