Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roads. It may lag behind, play safe, and cling to its 'scutcheen. Or it may take the lead in teaching its students temperance by allowing them to indulge in quiet, legal drinking with their meals. One is inclined to hope that yesterday's manifesto will not commit the University to the former path...
...aware that when he removes the bindings from his face or the trousers from his legs, there will be nothing there, he takes pleasure in frightening the host of a village inn by doing so. Presently he kills a policeman and then, intoxicated by the certainty that he can commit crimes with no possibility of being detected, he wrecks a train, kills another young doctor whom he has forced to be his partner, plans to make himself a world dictator-for by using his drug in wholesale quantities, he can have an invisible army. These plans of Dr. Griffin...
...James Dunn, Lillian Roth, Cliff Edwards, June Knight) straggle by hook or crook into the cast of a show being produced by an impressionable young socialite (Charles "Buddy" Rogers). After amicable bickerings between Dunn & Roth and Rogers & Knight, and after the efforts of a villainous café proprietor to commit the cardinal sin of preventing the show from going on, the first night is a huge success. A handsome and unusually rowdy adaptation of the musicomedy that played in Manhattan last winter, Take a Chance repeats most of the sketches that were successful on the stage. Good new songs...
...addition to being extremely deleterious to Cuba, this temporizing policy is of no benefit to this country; its only virtue is that it does not commit the State Department to anything and lets it straddle the real issue of whether C'ba is to be allowed to govern itself or is to be an American dependency. Inasmuch as its only effect is to prolong the misery of the Cuban people, it should be abandoned immediately and for it substituted a clear and forceful policy...
...this withdrawal Labour and the Social Democrats concurred. If they had refused to do so, private ownership, the real issue of the class struggle, would have been clarified and its outcome hastened. To such an ordeal the progressive parties did not wish to commit themselves, and the capitalists of Germany and Italy took advantage of their hesitancy to install a regime of violent social reaction. Since the change was not a revolutionary transfer, but merely an assertion by the governing classes of their own actual power, it was not difficult to enlist, for the purpose, the support of a great...