Word: commit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent are the merest words of Josef Stalin that his recently published criticism of a magazine article by Red Professor A. G. Slutzky was rumored all over Moscow last week to have driven Professor Slutzky to commit suicide...
...rules and inflict the penalty at all times. It is a well known fact that a great majority of the coaches teach their mon "inside tricks" and that in a good many cases if players are reasonably certain that a foul will not be discovered, they will commit it. If the present drastic penalties will force coaches to teach their players to adhere to the rules at all times the new changes should gain their ends. But when a large penalty is at stake officials are often loath to call the foul. They must be instructed that with more rigid...
...Truex). A sort of mystery play to end all mystery plays, it relates the adventures of a detective fictioneer who unexpectedly becomes embroiled with a gang of criminals. A fabricator of "more drugs for the drug stores," Actor Truex boasts to his burly acquaintances that he knows how to commit the perfect crime. His method is to secrete poison in the victim's toothpaste. Thereupon the criminals make Mr. Truex test his notion on a stool pigeon...
...Papavert is the name of a mellow old bookbinder who suddenly finds himself in jail. Released by Communists, he becomes for them a symbol of the oppressed workingman. But Mr. Papavert does not like to be a symbol, at one point tries to commit suicide. The whole affair woefully tries for satirical effect, elements of which must have been lost long ago with constant revision. The play was recalled after two performances last month. At that time it was called Papavert. Its present title resulted from a general impression that papaversion was a mental disease...
Republican Beedy of Maine, bald and aggressive: I'm amazed that the first speaker on the Democratic side commits his party to the principle that it's the duty of government to go into the Treasury and dole out money to those in need [applause]. Is there a man on the Democratic side who now wishes to rise and dissent from committing his party to the dole policy [nobody rises]. Very well, then, the issue is clean cut. The Demo-cratic party in the House would commit the Government to the dole...