Word: committed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still alive and to be reckoned with in the ultimate Austrian solution was "King Anton" Rintelen, closely guarded in the police hospital last week after his alleged attempt to commit suicide fortnight ago. Boasted his nurse, "Dr. Rintelen is one of the very few men alive today with stitches in his heart. The actual wall of his heart was operated on to save his life...
...discovers Britain has three sets of divorce laws, one for England, one for Ireland, one for Scotland. Under English law their only recourse is for him to fake an act of adultery, then let his wife's lawyer get the evidence, sue him. (If both John and Mary commit adultery, English law would punish them by never giving either a divorce.) Gritting his teeth, John goes through with it, finding an agency where he can hire a professional corespondent, taking her to a Brighton hotel for a weekend. Everything goes according to legal schedule. But unfortunately for John...
...Chamber of the biggest Left bloc, the Radical Socialists whose Party President is Edouard Herriot, perpetual Mayor of Lyons, onetime Premier and today, like M. Tardieu, a Minister of State. One morning last week despondency at the slime being flung at the Chautemps family caused Niece Jacqueline Chautemps to commit suicide. She may or may not have known that that morning M. Tardieu would go before the Stavisky Committee and launch a vitriolic attack upon Uncle Camille Chautemps...
...stamping out which followed scores of Storm Troop leaders, brownshirt potentates whose word has been law in their bailiwicks, were either shot by firing squads or were left alone in prison with a revolver which they used to commit suicide. The chancellor tried his hardest to make Col. Roehm shoot himself, twice sent him a pistol which came back with the defy, "If I am shot Hitler will have to do it himself...
...COMMIT TO THE FLAMES-Ivor Brown -Harper ($2). An English essayist commits various modern manifestations to the flames of his contempt. Tories will like this...