Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wary, Japanese men have for centuries not infrequently refused to marry "Hinuma girls." Despondent, such maidens often commit suicide if they remain unmarried until 20 years of age- the traditional limit after which irredeemable spinsterhood sets...
Without wishing to commit myself to the cause of materialism versus spiritualism, I do, nevertheless wish to take exception to some of the remarks made in Tuesday's issue by that zealous crusader who deplores that fact that certain undergraduates, "hypocrites, heathens and one-cylinder Shaws," have become so spiritually warped that they are raising "their puny, babbling voices demanding that God be sold for a gymnasium...
...Witos Government in an interview printed by the Warsaw press. Grimly he reflected that he was still the idol of the Polish army, that most Polish soldiers subscribe to the famed remark of a nameless private: "Our Pilsudski has only to wink his eye and we will all commit anything from treason to suicide, according to his orders...
They were rather slow to commit themselves, those who went. They were awed by the solemnity of the occasion, by the magnificence of Toscanini's production. It was not pappy, they said, not dull. Nor yet had it the characteristics of Boheme. It seemed rather not to be like Puccini at all. It was spectacular, Chinese with a decidedly Italian flavor, the story of a beautiful, cruel princess, chaste as a buttercup, up for marriage to the one who succeeds in unraveling three riddles she propounds. The Prince of Persia comes, dares to try, to risk his head...
...house and, by the tradition of freehold, his fortress. Some newspapermen, a few strikers, the members of the United Front Committee and a dozen policemen stood around the gnarled bole and listened to him. He asked them to keep the law. He asked them not to commit any disorderly acts. He said that in his opinion the bail of $30,000 fixed for Strike leader Weisbord (whom Sheriff Nimmo had just arrested) was excessive. A police whistle cawed. "Clean 'em up, boys," a voice directed, and the policemen, armed with clubs and shotguns, dissolved the group, hustled Mr. Thomas away...