Word: deed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consequences of the act, casually dismissed a librarian one morning whose contract had expired. That the sex of the official was feminine does not seem to have had nearly so much weight with the Secretary as with a whole hornet's nest of women's organizations. To them the deed was no less than a defiance of the Versailles Treaty, a denial to admit women to their rightful place in international affairs...
While other Harvard men were taking their ease and their feet off the family tables, one son of his aima mater did a deed certainly worth recording by any good orthophonic. Commander Flah, late of the Guard, accompanied by your humble correspondent, scaled Mt. Slowly...
Were we abashed? Not a whit. Gritting our teeth we advanced. Two bears, a slightly worn ulster, and a radical attacked us, but we fought them off. Only ten more inches and the deed was filed done. I looked at Fish. He was perspiring freely so that he looked much more like a person at a fancy dress ball than the intrepid explorer...
...answers seem to be: "Not much tripe" and "Very well in deed." In chapters on "The Sex Urge," "Frigidity and Incompatibility", and "Matrimony Wreckers'' there is much rehearsal of sex-psychology- prudish parents, prurient children; ignorant girls, boorish men - that will seem, in its sanity, almost old-fashioned to those who are brave enough to buy the book after they learn that the long, frank fourth chapter is on "Homosexuality." There is even the statement: "If man is polygamous, woman is polyandrous," with the usual demonstration that each is nothing of the kind. If that fails to reassure...
...factory girl, Roberta Alden, he has already set up a barrier to marriage with Sondra-the result of a lonely, passionate, summer romance. Too sensitive to break with Roberta, top weak to give up Sondra, he is driven in desperation to focus upon a murderous thought. From the actual deed itself, he recoils. But he has proceeded so far in his feverish plans that the tide of circumstance sweeps him on. An overturned rowboat, a camera used as a bludgeon, and Roberta drowns, perhaps murdered. The Law bays and quarters. A ghastly courtroom inquisition, a horrible, nerve-wracking, death-cell...