Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once their success seemed so doubtful that General Manager Naokishi offered to commit hara kiri, if she felt that he had mismanaged. For answer Mme. Suzuki turned over her entire affairs to M. Naokishi and went off with her children for a summer in the mountains. When she returned bankruptcy had been averted, and soon the War boom made her Japan's richest woman...
...also less obvious analogies between these two great cases, analogies that do not appear in the trial records, but which are no less certain. In the Dreyfus case, the "honor" of the French army was involved, and before the trial was over, the prosecution had found it necessary to commit forgery and withhold evidence in order to save that "honor". In the present case, the dignity of Massachusetts courts is involved, and this dignity has made it necessary for the court to refuse motions for a new trial when there exists more than a reasonable doubt in the minds...
...face full of Jewish flesh and ingenuity would have beamed forth over a nightmarish mechanical design-the canary cries, watering the sensitive plant, which blushes, warming the matchhead, which ignites, inspiring the cat to commit suicide. In this case a high-grade bellboy might have been able to name the handsome patron: Cartoonist Rube Goldberg. The desk clerk could probably have named Mr. Goldberg's companions: Cartoonists Clare Briggs and Bud Fisher. . . . The first formal and annual dinner of the Cartoonists of America was a large event in a circle where events are not numerous...
Honeymooning is a rowdyish jamboree, in which only the naive may find a modicum of unsophisticated amusement. The bridegroom plays dead on his wedding night, while the bride repents the cruelty that supposedly made him commit suicide and the in-laws communicate through spiritualistic medium with his table-rapping soul. Every now and then, he skips out of the coffin to pound someone on the head, then jumps back in again. No one catches him. Antics drive the farce out of the ridiculous into the absurd. The odd things about it are: 1) It was written by Hatcher Hughes...
...What act of mayhem did the farmer's wife commit on three mice...