Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Between Friends. A rather machine-made story of artists' life, in which Lou Tellegen is represented as hypnotizing a "friend" (who stole his wife) to commit suicide on Christmas eve, and then hypnotizing him out of it, by sheer power of the Tellegen will and smoldering eyes. A high spot is a Greenwich Village ball, in which great fun prevails when one of the revelers spanks the others with a waiter's tray...
Side-tracked a " Declaration of Faith, " presented by fundamentalists who hoped to commit Methodism to their views...
Satterlee's injuries were not as severe as had been previously reported, and he expects to return to college in time for his Final Examinations., Stevens, however, received a fractured skull, and doctors refused to commit themselves further than "he has a fighting chance," although admitting improvement over his condition from the previous...
...United States has set up a standard for the elimination of liquor. More and more people are realizing that they must defend the Prohibition Law because in its violation there is danger for all law. If a man can break the Volstead Act with immunity, he can commit bigamy; from bigamy he can go to theft. No property, no individual is safe under the law unless all law is obeyed...
...Daugherty himself once expressed it, he knew from the beginning that because of the circumstances attending the appointment Harding gave him, he was destined to be the 'goat' of the Harding Administration. Knowing that, to think that he would commit a crime would argue such a combination of cupidity together with lack of ordinary intelligence as is utterly impossible to believe about as intelligent a man as Daugherty...