Word: committing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taxi Bronx Taxi Driver John Crowe got into an altercation with Patrolman Filomeo Saviola, was promptly jailed for disorderly conduct. He won a suspended sentence by signing a pledge: "I apologize to this police officer and promise that never again in my life will I commit a similar offense-that is, calling policemen screwballs...
...exception," the only man who had refused to help him in his program for national defense. Who was the man? Gossip sizzled. The President would not tell. Washington wisemen thought it must have been Alf Landon, who had reportedly turned down a Cabinet job when the President refused to commit himself on Term...
...facing a grave national emergency fraught with the possibility of immediate peril. I know that we are unprepared but I am confident that it is not a hopeless situation." These were some of the plainest words to which the public had been treated by men in responsible positions. The commit tees, whether or not they agreed with everything Colonel Stimson and Colonel Knox said, approved the appointments 14-10-3 and 9-10-5 respectively...
Fragile enough is Molnar's fantasy of a swaggering, restless, ill-tempered barker (Burgess Meredith) who loves an inarticulate servant girl (Ingrid Bergman), marries her, beats her, commits a crime for the sake of the child she is bearing him, dies, is tried in Heaven, sent to Hell for 16 years, then allowed to return to Earth for a day to try to commit a good deed. The play's appeal lies partly in its letting the audience understand perfectly someone who never understands himself at all -who is bad because he is afraid to be good...
...face on the screen before--many a film star has gone over the dam there. But what makes this picture unusual is probably the fact that Warden Lewis "Twenty Thousand Years" Lawes wrote the original story. The gangster is neither reformed nor reprieved for the crime he didn't commit. The picture ends with Garfield taking his last long walk, strut and all. All Tommy Gordan has learned with the help of Warden Long is that he is as tough as he thinks he is. Love for Miss Sheridan, who did do the murdering in his defense, is what sends...