Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would clearly be premature at this stage for me to commit this Government to any particular course of action...
...honest citizens what Poland's ill-starred Our Life did for crooks. Short while ago in Warsaw police arrested the Russian woman editor and the staff of Our Life, "first professional journal" for thieves, burglars, robbers-an incredible publication which told how to break safes, commit burglaries without leaving fingerprints. Our Life advertisers offered window jimmies and burglary instruction. Police seized the long list of subscribers in Poland and abroad, arrested many in Russia...
Some of the characters who people these sequences include a sardonic anthropologist named Dr. Thumb, who involves himself joyfully on Trolley's side; Newshawk Kilgallon, Trolley's satirical, hard-drinking crony, a World War hero and onetime child prodigy singer who has been trying to commit suicide since adolescence; Gus Popolos, a Rasputin-like fanatic who wanders around in a moth-eaten bear rug, proclaims Colonel Steele the new Messiah, finally marries an outsmarted chorus girl; Moussa, a notorious Arab pickpocket, whom nobody understands except Captain Trolley; the mayor's katzenjammer son, whose snooping in Dr. Thumb...
...MEYERLING-Auto-biography of "R," a Habsburg Prince, in collaboration with Henry Wysham Lanier-Lippincott ($3). Diverting, specious story of a man claiming to be the secret son of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, who, he maintains, did not commit suicide in 1889 but lived until...
...wiles of solicitors and to the intricacies of Harvard Square. Some of these ten hundred will find the first weekend lonely and speak to themselves of the Harvard "indifference," as well renowned as the name of Columbus. Some will find the Back Bay accent strange. Before, however, you commit yourself or form a prejudice, accept as hearty welcome the advice of those who were once in your position...