Word: commit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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News item: "Cleopatra did not commit suicide through love, according to a Munich savant, but because the ancient Egyptians believed that death from an asp bite would insure apotheosis afterward...
Commons. In answer to questions from the Opposition, Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, told the House that "His Majesty's Government" intends to revert to a gold currency standard at the "earliest possible moment." He would not commit himself more definitely...
...guests. C¶ President Coolidge transmitted to the Senate the text of the Paris reparations agreement which had aroused the fears of some Senators that it was an "entanglement" (TiME, Jan. 6, Feb. 2). With the document was a letter from Secretary Hughes explaining that the agreement did not commit the U. S. to enforce the Experts' Plan if Germany should default, that it had nothing of the nature of a treaty, that it was merely an executive agreement whereby the U. S. is to receive money owing from Germany by getting a share of the reparations payment...
Several times before a peerage had been offered to Mr. Asquith, but he resolutely refused the honor; for to enter the House of Lords' powerless debating chamber, would have been to commit political suicide. At the age of 73, however, and with the fortunes of the Liberal Party at their lowest ebb, the barrier to the Lords was obviously removed. Were it not that he was opposed in principle to accepting honors for himself, the matter might rest there; but, as London club talk had it, his last scruples were overcome by his dynamic wife...
SILENCE-A heedless melodrama with many flaws and an enormous amount of excitement. H. B. Warner is the hero crook who did not commit the murder...