Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other of Lampy's closest protagonists refused to commit themselves on the matter. J. H. Quayle '27, who has successfully thrown the flagrope through the Ibis' stand, merely repeated the gist of President Whedon's statement in the word, "Eggs...
...they knew would be two causes to delay translation of the words of Locarno into action: 1) political upheavals in France which robbed the French delegate temporarily of his right to vote; 2) deadlock over the creation in the Council of seats for Brazil and Spain. They refused to commit Germany to any policy to be pursued once she should be admitted to the League. They waited...
...King of Utah, conservative but none the less western, reminds his party that they must provide "a wise farm policy". Further in this direction, Representative Howard, significantly from Nebraska, stresses the necessity of an out-and-out liberalism with particular reference to "the agricultural zone". He goes on to commit himself to an agrarian platform by requesting for 1928 "a presidential nominee from the agricultural west and a vice-presidential nominee from the agricultural south...
...control, bordering on stolidity, was the antithesis of her neurotic nature, which was of a lasciviousness so intense as to be quite "pure." A Catholic, she could not divorce him. An old school Tory, he would not divorce her. He set his jaw, closed his mansion, saw his father commit suicide, his mother die of grief, when he was bruited a maquereau, (wife-seller). His code, so ancient that society could not recognize it, commanded silence. He took the blame, pretending to have liaisons of his own. When, furious at her failure to make him wince, she asked to return...
...moment an actor closes his eyes, hitches up his trousers, and starts gaspeing for words he creates in the mind of his audience a favorable prejudice which will make up for all the sins he may subsequently commit. William Hodge has mastered this sort of stage helplessnoss. He has learned to lie down and let the rest of the cast walk over him in the same passive manner in which Andrew Gump, that great idol of the middle West, obeys the call...