Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American football eleven. Also, he won honors in his geology course. For his athletic skill the University this year appointed him assistant football coach; for his academic record the trustees last week made him assistant to Dean Christian Gauss. Mornings he helps train undergraduates not to cut classes or commit other minor offenses; afternoons he helps train the University eleven...
...pained and indignant that it is possible for anyone to spread such idiotic and calumnious tales," said the Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, scotching a report that Princess Ileana, her youngest daughter, had eloped with a married but fascinatingly handsome naval lieutenant and, balked, had tried to commit suicide...
...COMMAND TO LOVE-In which the diplomat says in effect: "I regret I have but one sin to commit for my country...
...deep, deeply contradictory love which she feels for Felix Nawn. She marries him for martyrdom and her conflict continues; now it is between , her longing for Roger Dallenger and the old torturous instinct to protect the weaknesses of Felix. When Felix learns that the theft which he committed so that he could buy her a car is going to be exposed, he finds the tardy courage to commit suicide. Roger, about to propose to another girl, hears of his death and the story reaches its unnecessarily happy conclusion. Despite the weakening of the last 100 pages, the adolescent anguish...
...ever a member of the Andaloro-Ferrarello gang. "That is absurd," said he. "I have always been their enemy." He denied, as was to be expected, all the crimes with which he was accused. Extortion in particular he condemned as a "frivolous" act. "I would be ashamed to commit it!" said he. "Although I am the nephew of Gaetano Ferrarello, [another notorious bandit chief who killed himself in prison rather than face trial], I am proud to proclaim that I am an honest man and a perfect gentleman...