Word: committed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...body they contemptuously dismissed the demand by declaring it "inconceivable that the Executive Council would commit any act to split the labor forces of America in the midst of the campaign in the iron and steel indus try and in the face of the arrogant ultimatum issued to the entire labor movement by the American Iron and Steel Institute." R, L P. At week's end the steel campaigners repaired for inspiration to the scene of the first great battle between U. S. steelmasters and U. S. steelmakers...
Part of the reason that And So They Were Married is better-than-average entertainment is that its 10-year-olds are endowed with adult minds and motives, a situation producing an unusual potency in the pranks the children commit, such as making a major catastrophe of a hotel Christmas tree and the party going on around it. The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (RKO). A decorative dunderhead (Jean Arthur) who writes detective stories has a habit of dragging her surgeon-husband (William Powell; into real-life murder mysteries. When they are divorced she tries to get him back by entangling...
...accidental criminal is usually quite frank in admitting his crime. Psychopaths commit crimes against persons such as murder: non-psychopaths against property, such as burglary. Many psychopathic criminals are teetotalers.-Dr. Cornelius Collins Wholey, Pittsburgh...
Bishop Müller: You must recognize that to commit murder is the result of inner development which begins with jealousy, envy and hatred...
Since Roman days the populace has shown a tendency to get tired of circuses and demand something more substantial. Most of the committee members have shown that they cannot understand the issues, but at least they can estimate the forces more carefully. So, before the remaining members commit themselves, let them consider the possibility of having successors in office...