Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ghosts (1881), in which a son is smitten by Fate in the guise of inherited venereal disease; 4) An Enemy of the People (1882), wherein the honesty of one man makes him the enemy of ordinary folk; 5) The Wild Duck (1884), a play about a sensitive girl who commits suicide when she learns that she is illegitimate; 6) Rosmersholm (1886) in which a husband and wife and "other woman" hound each other until they all commit suicide...
...which price it held until the close of the day. Blocks of 10,000 shares at a time came out on the ticker at ever increasing prices. The shorts were caught; were "paying through the nose." The Stock Exchange authorities, interviewed by agonized shorts after the close, declined to commit themselves as to whether an investigation would be ordered to see whether a corner existed. The day's total trading was 3,909,100 shares, the largest day in the 130 years of the history of the Stock Exchange Brokers, traders, speculators, gamblers rejoiced. The Ides of March, terror...
...could place Mlle. Roseray and the club in which she performed, more conspicuously before the public eye than either had ever been before. With elaborate cunning, he constructed his plan. Mlle. Roseray would go into Central Park and give an imitation of a woman trying, not very hard, to commit suicide; she would be rescued by sensation seekers who, with shouts and squealings, might decoy a few newshawks to the scene of action. Newshawks would then fly to the home of Mlle. Roseray; there they would find a note addressed to the proprietor of her night club, a suicide note...
There were two questions. This was the first: Did Sebastian Spering Kresge, multi-millionaire proprietor of 5 & 10 cent stores, famed philanthropist and supporter of the Anti-Saloon League, devout Methodist Episcopalian churchman, commit a breach of conduct with Miss Gladys Ardelle Fish, with whom he arranged a rendezvous at the door of a fashionable Manhattan Church, and with whom detectives later discovered him to be consorting in a nearby apartment? The answer to this question, determined last week by the judicial decision upon Mrs. Kresge's uncontested suit for divorce, was yes. The second question, raised...
...such as that perhaps Prexy knows more than we do about the business of being Prexy, that the reading period is just as well off, maybe better with reading assignments, and that Radcliffe girls like to look that way. Further that a large majority of College Comic editors eventually commit suicide (an exaggeration, note by reviewer) to evade reading proof (grant the evasion N. B. R.), and that a predominance of tight wad stories took their inspiration not from Scotchmen, but from College Comic Treasurers. (The good dog hunts ....? N. B. R.) (Editor of the Crimson please pardon four dots...