Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some of us die-hards will persist in calling him "Major." Impudent young bloods will callously accept the new title, little realizing or caring that they are stamping on a fine old thing--a noble tradition. I, for one, regret this, and an bewildered by an officialdom which will commit such an act as this. D. G. Anderson...
Some gatophobes commit felicide. They belong to the middle stratum of cat-haters. Others so morbidly hate & fear cats that they are too paralyzed by one's presence to be able to kill it. More normal and far more numerous are those gatophobes whose comparatively mild aversion to cats finds expression only in "s-s-scatting," throwing shoes, occasional kidnapping...
...what we would call in this country a fishing inquiry. It was merely an effort to get this man. hour after hour, morning, noon & night, to commit himself to something. He was not informed on what charge he was arrested, but he was called upon to make a complete confession. Any testimony obtained by these means is rubbish...
...Brown. It is invested for her in a stockmarket margin account, thereby impoverishing her. Her moonstruck brood has to go to work or starve, which they nearly do. The youngest becomes a swimming instructor. Another applies himself to his law studies. Interrupted in the midst of naive plans to commit suicide with an unpublished novelist, Daughter Elizabeth (Ruth Gordon) turns practical, gets a job at Macy...
...bridge when Bastings unfortunately thinks that she is not faithful to him. Bumper rescues her, she has amnesia; Bumper reforms, gets a job, and she is about to marry him. But, Bumper's friend, the Mayor, is almost frantic when June isn't found and is about to commit suicide, and so in typical Al Jolson style there is a happy reunion for all except Bumper who is left out in the Park...