Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Equipped with English subtitles, Sable Cicada is an ingratiating curio, remarkable for sets, costumes and genial Chinese mugging by I. E. Koo, as the lustful Prime Minister. Most censorable sequence: mischievous Cicada pretending to commit suicide and then lying to both admirers about her reasons...
...English is ut? Th' Sassanachs wha beheaded King Chairlie an' gar th' Bonnie Prince hisel tae flee tae France. An' noo they'd commit th' sacrilege o' mudrerin' th' name o' th' Standard Bearer himsel. altho' weel they ken that when God or th' Empire want something hard dane, He or It send lor th' Scots...
...brutal dictator who, with that same hand, is robbing and torturing thousands of fellow human beings? Perhaps Henry Ford and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh [both decorated by Germany in 1938] will be willing to answer. . . . The bestower of [these tokens] counts that day lost when he can commit no new crime against humanity...
...reader unaware of the fundamentally simple weave of these people may feel that they are too often pathological cases, warped by a tough existence into a state of mind where they commit crazy, tragic actions--Mary Orr, for example, who just "upped" and deserted her husband after twenty years, or the Island wife who jumped into the sea one fine day. It is hard for us to regard these abrupt acts, that come with so little outward warning, as normal. We cannot understand the simplicity of a Thomas King who blows the head off his powerful body after carefully feeding...
...College students and faculty last week indignantly organized commit tees, with slogans and verse campaigned to keep their college open, many an edu cator wondered whether Teachers College's pioneering influence over U. S. education was beginning to crack up. Progressive Edu cation Association's directors urged...