Word: committed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...North Dakota contingent, led by Prohibition Administrator John N. Hagen, was assured that Hooverism is extremely Dry. (North Dakota lately voted within 5,000 of repealing its longtime State enforcement law.) North Dakota's boyish Senator Gerald P. Nye was there and, though the Nominee declined to commit himself to an extra session of Congress for Farm Relief, Senator Nye announced: "I was in doubt before Hoover's acceptance speech, but he has talked frankly. I find it my duty to support...
...what a rich national asset the Colorado River is and how much bigger and better Los Angeles would be when its waters were thoroughly exploited. He implied that such exploitation should be under Government auspices, but by no syllable did he express hostility towards private operation, or commit himself beyond the findings of "the engineers."* He was careful to add that the "highest dam" and "greatest reservoir" must have the full approval of the six other Colorado River States...
...know about it, if possible. Suicide is out of the question. On the day before his death Captain Loewenstein telephoned one of his closest friends that he was on his way to see his son ride in the horse show at Geneva. He was a man too happy to commit suicide." Autopsy findings. ". . . many multiple fracture wounds, proving that the fall was from a great height ... no trace of drugs or poisons . . . muscular derangement . . . evidence that he was alive when he struck the water...
Count Van de Ponthose, close Brussels associate of M. le Captaine, cried: "When one is of the house of Loewenstein, one does not commit suicide!" A rival ogre of finance, M. Henry Drefus, chairman of British Celanese and a ruthless combatant with Ogre Loewenstein, commented at London in three words: "I am sorry...
...sermon I heard him preach half a century ago, when he spoke of the difference between a man's falling within his resolution and outside of it. The former is a conscious fault; recognized by the man as such, which he thoroughly regrets and resolves not to commit again; the latter an excused fault, condoned by himself, and therefore likely to be repeated. Such a fault may be small, but small faults gradually dim the keenness of discrimination between right' and wrong. Well did the old testament singer exclaim, "Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines...