Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italian beauty marries her father's friend to escape a cad. The villain forthwith orders her husband to Tripoli. Following him into the desert, she falls in love with her handsome officer escort, marries him when her husband's death is reported. Her husband returns, only to commit convenient suicide. Endless shots of Miss Goudal staring vacantly into space between scenes of bloody Arab forays, slow up the action...
...realized. This however, is a minor point. The important thing is that the undergraduate's summer has become steadily more active and less sedentary. He may enter some trade or engage in agricultural work, if he is financially able, he may roam the seven seas. But rarely does he commit himself to the vegetation which was his wont. He appears to have reached the conclusion that there is no code which forbids him adding to his stock of knowledge in any other time besides winter. By travel, manual labor, diverse means, he can both busy himself and learn. Education...
...will be the closest race of the day, and again Paulsen and Miller will fight it out for first place and I am going to commit an act of heresy by predicting that Paulsen will nose out Miller, and Lundell will be third. In the Quarter Mile I can't see anybody but Ross of Yale with Malick and Peet of Harvard second and third, the time 49 3-5 seconds...
...these people fall in love with the utmost bitterness. Venetia is lost between Peter Serle and Charles Savile. Raphael grows excited about an actress but fails to commit suicide although Author Arlen has thoughtfully put a yacht at his service with this purpose in mind. In the main their actions are unimportant, their manners make the story. Other figures glitter from unexpected portions of the narrative. Mr. Arlen has not entirely relinquished his trick of reinserting personages from previous books. The immaculate George Tarlyon is seen for an instant, playing bridge...
...police called attention to the fact that Mr. Wilkins had been killed by seven knife wounds, each of which has now been avenged by the execution of a Mexican Indian. Further, the police explained that when a gang of Indians sets out to commit murder each must strike a blow, by custom, that all may be equally guilty and none tempted to betray the others...