Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forget him. But Fedya, despite his weak lips and wanton tastes, was not the total wreckage that he seemed. For one thing, he never took advantage of the passion innocently offered him by his beloved Masha, the gypsy. For another, he never told lies, so that rather than commit the wholesale falsification necessary to give his wife a divorce, he pretended to kill himself (he was not brave enough for real suicide) so that she could marry a devoted, comfortable suitor. When Fedya's ruse was discovered years later and he learned that, depending on the courts...
Harvard Juniors must within another week commit themselves definitely as to whether they do or do not wish to become part and parcel of the House Plan during their Senior year. In other words, the system which has been so deplored and so defended at Cambridge and at New Haven will now receive its first and perhaps its most vital test, that of undergraduate support or condemnation. Each junior at Cambridge must decide whether he desires to align himself with the new Harvard or prefers to complete his course under the traditional social system...
SERENADE To THE HANGMAN-Maurice Dekobra-Payson & Clarke ($2.50). Ibrahim, an Egyptian cuckolder, is imprisoned in Stamboul, about to be hanged for anarchy. To him comes Schomburg, Bohemian psychiatrist, one of the men he has cuckolded. He offers Ibrahim freedom, on condition that he commit suicide a year later. Joyfully Ibrahim signs the pledge, escapes his prison, flirts with guests on the Schomburg yacht, crosses swords of wit with Schomburg himself, saves a little French dancer from ruffians and takes her to live with him. He wanders feverishly through Europe feeling the days slip by. When he wants to hide...
...course of our ten years of prohibition the Government and Parliament have utterly failed, in my opinion, to devise means for efficient enforcement. . . . The majority of our citizens apparently refuse to support prohibition and regard it as a sport to commit offenses. . . . The country is flooded with liquor. ... It is time for our dreaming Prohibitionists to face this fiasco and awake...
...shot came a few minutes before banks were due to open. That morning the doors of Plum's comparatively small Folkebank (capital $1,600,000) remained locked. Cousin Bretteville Plum, the bank's Managing Director, scouted the police theory that Tycoon Plum had intended to commit suicide. Stock of the Folkebank dropped only 15 points. Hours dragged by, with Plum the Great unconscious...