Word: pledgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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2. Are you in favor of restoring non-critical desserts to the menus of noon meals and substituting a voluntary pledge of a weekly money contribution?
4. For convenience, opportunity is here given you to make a pledge of a weekly money contribution. Pledges may be paid at the dining halls. I pledge $..... as a weekly contribution to Harvard Food Relief.
Going straight did not appeal to some of the henchmen. They renounced the blood brotherhood pledge and left the gang in discontent. Last week pasty-faced Tomiji Nodera, who, though an accountant, could not stomach the new business ethics, visited the boss, pulled a German Mauser pistol and fired three...
Dean Sperry's soft-voiced denunciation of non-liturgical sloppiness in the U.S.: "The Prayer Book, with its implicit pledge that . . . the offices shall be read decently and in order, is probably the greatest single source of attraction to non-Episcopalians. In the worship of the non-liturgical churches...
Once a year* all U.S. Catholics are asked to take the public pledge of the Legion of Decency: "... I acknowledge my obligation to form a right conscience about pictures that are dangerous to my moral life. ... I pledge myself to remain away from them. I promise, further, to stay away...