Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington: "There positively will be a Share-the-Wealth ticket in the field in the 1936 campaign. No doubt about that. That ticket will be headed by a man who won't go back on his word. He will be a man who is honorable enough to commit suicide if we win and he doesn't make good on his promises...
...Senator, are you honorable enough to commit suicide under such circumstances...
...into the play and which was so notably absent from the U. S. screen version in which Charles Farrell appeared (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). Characteristically imaginative is Lang's use of puppets-usually a detriment to any cinema-in the interlude which shows Liliom, after feebly attempting to commit first robbery and then suicide, visiting Heaven before he comes back to Earth to beg forgiveness of Julie (Madeleine Czeray...
...sustained grilling which the prisoner underwent apparently failed to shake his story, as he steadfastly denied all charges. Colonel Apted, queried shortly before midnight, refused to commit himself, stating only in his brief but forceful manner, "I'll deny anything you print, and I've got four witnesses here listening to this phone conversation...
...three contrive not only to keep body and soul comfortably together but also to exemplify the Golden Rule. The violinist gives lessons to a street cleaner whose life ambition is to learn to play "Macushla" on the fiddle. The furniture dealer rescues a despondent banker who is trying to commit suicide by plunging into a pond. The actress keeps house for them and is dejected only when the furniture dealer wears a shirt she has not had time to iron. By the time the picture ends, the violinist has a job, the street cleaner knows his tune, the banker...