Word: committed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which she performs as a prostitute with more principles than profits. In Wharf Angel Toy (Dorothy Dell) is a San Francisco bad girl, rehabilitated by her pure love for Como (Preston Foster). He is a soap box socialist hounded by the police for a murder he did not commit. Turk (Victor McLaglen), also in love with Toy, helps Como escape. This leads to two climactic moments which, like the heroine, appear to have been dredged up from the past: the one in which Como and Turk, after a trip to China and back spent in exhaustive conversation about their romances...
...pretty little mannikin who led him straight to the Orleans pawnshop and a cardboard box containing gems valued at $78,000 which Stavisky was in the habit of putting up from time to time for rush loans. During the week two men closely connected with the case attempted to commit suicide. Scrabbling through the Stavisky correspondence, investigators discovered a letter to Stavisky with the salutation "Cher Monsieur et Bon Ami-", supposed to have been written by Henri Hurlaux, assistant prosecuting attorney of the Court of Appeal. White-chinned old Henri Chéron, Minister of Justice, promptly removed good Friend...
...Sprague '97, Converse Professor of Banking and Finance, and former assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, speaking before an audience in the Senior Common Room of Winthrop House last night. "We become very angry and disagreeable when other nations do things which displease us, and yet we commit extremely unreasonable acts and think nothing...
...first place, there are too many crimes committed. In times like these there are people who must steal in order to live, and there are always many hardened criminals for whom there is no remedy but jail. Nothing can be done about these. But when there are young men and boys who commit horrible crimes "just for the thrill," much can, and should be done. Movies and novels have portrayed the criminal as a romantic figure, with the result that there is a tendency to admire and even envy him instead of despising him. It is this tendency which...
...moment I can only commit myself on one point-it is a selachian [shark and ray family]. ... As for the individual characteristics of the monster, it is possible we are in the presence of an unknown species. C'est epatant...