Word: committing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...RIGHT MURDER-Craig Rice -Simon & Schuster ($2). In this sequel to The Wrong Murder, Mona McClane makes good her boast: she'll commit murder in the public streets in full view of witnesses and go free. Another fine, tough, drunken frenzy-American style...
...Bishop of Cremona which had already been read in every church of the diocese and reprinted in the Vatican's Osservatore Romano. Excerpt: "God punishes peoples by abandoning them to unworthy shepherds or to perverse or inept rulers or by permitting that even the better ones among them commit fatal errors...
Whereas people with other types of mental disorder try to sink to an infantile level, or to an animal or vegetative level, the semantic dementia cases try to find utter disintegration, nonlife. But, not recognizing their deep urge to self-destruction, they practically never commit forthright suicide...
...Lyon Mackenzie King and his Cabinet to confer on the Rowell-Sirois Report. The Premiers of Canada's five poor provinces (Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island) were generally in favor of it. Premier Joseph Adelard Godbout of French-speaking Quebec was not ready to commit himself, but would talk. Three Premiers were flatly opposed: Ontario's florid Mitchell Hepburn, Alberta's vast shiny William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, British Columbia's round, pink Thomas Dufferin Pattullo...
...struggle. So it was something of a shock that last Thursday the heads of two leading American universities came out with eminently sensible statements that are hard to pick a quarrel with. Chicago's Robert Maynard Hutchins, in a radio address, warned that the nation "is about to commit suicide" by joining the European conflict, and that President Roosevelt is sliding dangerously close to active intervention. Harvard's Conant, who is far from agreeing with his colleague on the question of going to war, warned in his annual report to the Board of Overseers that the present crisis presents many...