Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lullaby. Husband commits murder and is himself killed in the act. Faithful wife takes part blame and is parked in state's prison. Baby daughter is adopted by State Governor and brought up respectable. Years pass. Mother comes out. Mother seeks baby daughter. Baby daughter is having coming out party at very gubernatorial mansion. Mother gets by the butlers. Governor persuades mother: "She must not know." Mother agrees and goes out on lawn to commit suicide. Daughter and fiance bring her around. Fiancé marries daughter anyway...
...added several days later: "Evidence is daily coming to light that the nation-wide propaganda to commit the people and their representatives in Congress to the Mellon tax bill, before all of its provisions were made known, is the result of a huge organized conspiracy on the part of the predatory interests constituting special privilege...
...Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany brought a suit against Herr von der Heydt, Editor-in-Chief of the Lokal Anzeiger, for having published a story to the effect that the Kaiser in 1895 caused a young lieutenant named von Hahnke to commit suicide...
...Government of the United States is not in a position to be represented on these committees, but my Government believes that the proposed inquiries will be of great value, and it views with favor the acceptance by American experts of invitations ; to participate in the work of the commit; tees...
Although no one in Boston has as yet followed the example of the New York woman who threatened to commit suicide unless she were given a ticket to Eleanora Duse's return to the American stage, there is already ample indication that Boston holds the famous actress in the same esteem as the rest of the world...