Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...children to the zoo will be unconscionably delinquent if they do not take them to Simba, Parents will themselves be surprised, delighted, often amazed.- Simba is the native term for lion. The native hunt for this king of beasts in which black men, defenseless save for shield and spear, commit a bloody regicide serves as a gruelling climax. The Drums of Love. Lovers long ago defeated in their love have brightened many a story with golden shadows of a picturesque despair. Now, under a title which is highly absurd and which has reference to nothing except the box-offices...
...Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, which, with official delegations from 28 denominations, was holding annual session in Cleveland, became an uproar. Said the Rev. Dr. George Summey of New Orleans: "Now let's be careful lest we touch matters of a political nature and commit ourselves to something that will soil the garments of the Bride of Christ. . . . There is a wide difference of opinion. Now, let's go carefully." Colored Baptist Dr. W. H. Jernagin pleaded in its favor on the grounds that it would give the Negro church confidence in white church cooperation...
...think that when a country sends a man to this country as an Ambassador, or in any other capacity, it certainly should not send a murderer, or a rapist, or a man who would commit arson; at least it should send one who would not be guilty of any one of those three classes of crimes. When they have no regard for this country, but send that class of people here, I think that when they kill children on the street, when they take American girls to places for debauchery and debauch them and brag on it, and openly violate...
...Columbia arguers attacked the present national administration, asserting that Smith could not possibly commit worse errors of diplomacy. They further argued that he had shown that "the best economy is the wise spending of money", and that "there is no valid reason to doubt the ability of Governor Smith to handle any sort of an affair," His record in state administration was cited as proof...
...Girl from Chicago. Little Mary Carlton, when she comes to Manhattan from her ancestral mansion in the South, tells the gang of crooks who have packed her brother off to prison for a murder he did not commit, that she comes from Chicago. In view of this admission, even her inability to smoke cigarets as if she had done it before does not convince the bad men that she is not a racketeer. Eventually, with the aid of the police and some airplanes, she saves her brother and wins the love of the detective who has been masquerading...