Word: deed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Personally I should prefer that the word "Army" should never occur on the same page with "Boy Scout." Youngsters who charge up a "good deed" to themselves every day (or is it three times a day?) are, in my estimation, little prigs...
Leeds of Germantown, Pa., writes in an especially priggish view. I can visualize little Leeds happy at the thought that writing you was a "good deed" (or is their phrase "good turn"?). At any rate let us hear from little Leeds as to whether he charged up his letter as a "turn...
...began to investigate the case of George J. Voight of Washington, D. C., who was recently ousted from the District of Columbia Golf Association because he had "acted in a manner detrimental to the best interest and spirit of the game." Mr. Voight's "detrimental" deed was giving up the repairing of typewriters for the U. S. Department of the Treasury and accepting a position as secretary to Edward B. McLean, potent publisher of the Washington Post and playmate of the late Present Harding...
Women told President Coolidge last week what he should do so that posterity might rank his name along with Lincoln's.. The deed essential for such fame was his getting behind the proposed Lucretia Mott Amendment (giving women equal rights with men) and securing its passage by Congress. So said a delegation from the "National Woman's Party, guests at the Summer White House. State laws which "restrict the economic freedom of women" are objectionable, said Miss Gail Laughlin, lawyer of Portland, Me., first vice chairman of the Party. It took men long years of fighting...
...which had commented despairingly: "In the face of the country's unanimous expectation that it would receive a Government which it had indicated unquestionably was its choice, it is answered again with a Government by the Bratiano family. May God protect Rumania from . . . this [the King's] deed...