Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each other. The difficulties that have created this anomalous situation are serious but not, in my opinion, insoluble. . . . I should be glad to receive any representatives you may designate to explore with me personally all questions outstanding between our countries. Participation in such a discussion would, of course, not commit either nation to any future course of action, but would indicate a sincere desire to reach a satisfactory solution of the problems involved...
...parody turn and little inspiration to some 17th Cen-tury dances. Pictorially it is nearly perfect. But even dour-faced Osgood Perkins as the tyrannical Brother Sganarelle and childish-voiced June Walker as his ward who is advised to "serve his meals all dank and sultry, and in between commit adultery" cannot make much of Moliere's empty comedy of words and cardboard characterizations. Plot: June Walker, in love with a young suitor (Michael Bartlett) whom Osgood Perkins' surveillance has kept from meeting her, pretends to love Perkins. She sends him to berate the suitor for his attentions...
...again announced that Seniors who are candidates for honors will not be required to take hour exams in courses within their fields of concentration, "provided the department...decides to adopt that ruling." Invariably, confusion has resulted from the vagueness of this last clause. Because various departments have refused to commit themselves definitely, choosing rather to leave the matter up to the discretion of individual professors in each course, Seniors have cut exams unintentionally, taken others not required, and in general failed to derive proper benefit from their exemption...
...Observers, less sanguine perceive that the League of Nations, like a stock pool or a successful church, demands from its operators that they be in good faith, that they shall not bargain slyly around the corner. Perhaps Great Britain and France believe in the League, and are willing to commit themselves seriously to its processes; it is no very cynical asperity to remark that this willingness has never been demonstrated...
...washroom. There were others there. The raucous Senator was impatient of any delay. Imperiously he ordered a young man to stand aside for the "Kingfish of Louisiana." "Take it easy-take it easy," replied the young man. Unable or unwilling to restrain himself, Senator Long proceeded to commit a gross indignity upon the young man. When he felt what was happening to his leg the young man wheeled around, drove his knuckles with all his might into the offender's face. The Senator staggered back groggily, brought up against the washbasins. Blood streamed down his face from...