Word: commit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico City Albert Medrano, who had tried to commit suicide by: throwing himself under a train (but was prevented); shooting himself in the head (but the pistol failed); asphyxiation (but relatives broke in); drowning (but he was hauled out of the river); hanging (but he was cut down), made one more attempt. He climbed to the roof of his house, jumped off, died of heart failure...
...Thou shalt not commit adultery or gamble...
...Commit anything except adultery...
...were supplied by the arrival from England of a Cunard Line doctor who revealed that Heroine Faithfull had come to see him on shipboard just before she disappeared from home, that he had sent her away because she was drunk, that she had written him she was going to commit suicide. The doctor's picture now made display material as the epic passed into its third week. Observers marveled at what the great U. S. Press could do with the conjunction of a perfect front-page name, a sexy death mystery and a spell of hot weather...
...addicted to a gruesome technique in murder, an elderly gentleman with nice manners and a furtive attitude toward homicide (Dudley Digges), and a shrewd, lighthearted, brutal detective (Ricardo Cortez) -are bad enough. All of them are eager to acquire an item of antique jewelry†- the Maltese falcon. They commit a total of three murders in the effort to do so. In a wry conclusion, the Maltese falcon is found to be valueless; the detective delivers the heroine (Bebe Daniels) to the police for hanging. The Lawyer's Secret (Paramount). However distressing it may be when a client comes...