Word: committed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Children, Conversation-added a section on Words because he is a lexicographer at heart, tossed in a digest of an inspirational book for good measure. Printing short articles in which big names talked to little readers on such subjects as "Be Glad Your Wife's Neurotic" and "Why Commit Suicide?" he soon ran his magazine's circulation to more than...
...Fuehrer's resignation and the subsequent liberation of the Jews caused such an uprear in Italy that Mussolini retired to dedicate himself to "my family and home." Isenberg's reports continue. Reverberations in Russia caused Stalin to commit suicide after admitting that communism was a failure and recommending that a democracy based on the United States government be established...
...resigned. Adolphe Thiers, Marshal MacMahon and Alexandre Millerand quit under political pressure. Jules Grévy tried a second term, left when his son-in-law was caught trafficking in Legion of Honor decorations. Casimir Périer got disgusted with his job. Paul Deschanel went crazy, tried to commit suicide by jumping out of a train, resigned. Two were assassinated: Sadi Carnot by an Italian anarchist in 1894, Paul Doumer by a Russian in 1932. Félix Faure died a natural death in office...
...Magistrate's Court, year ago, Nurse Pearl White charged that Nurse Essolene Monnier, off & on since 1930, had been calling her obscene and profane names on the telephone. Magistrate Thomas A. Aurekio found Essolene Monnier guilty. Last week the Court of Appeals reversed him, ruled it impossible to commit a breach of the peace by calling anyone anything whatever, by telephone...
...Nancy Titterton in her Beekman Place apartment three years ago. Mrs. Titterton had called Fiorenza to repair a loveseat, had urged him to return it as quickly as possible. Fiorenza had a long-standing abnormal relationship to his mother which produced in his split personality powerful desires to commit cruel acts. His temporary possession of Mrs. Titterton's "loveseat" acted as a sufficiently strong stimulus for his disorganized mind to transfer to the innocent stranger his feeling for his mother. Overcome by a wave of sadism, he killed Mrs. Titterton. If Fiorenza had not been executed, said Dr. Zilboorg...