Word: deed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Western American realists in story writing, who have been courting precisely this bath of mirth for nearly four years. The execution is performed in a short story entitled "Anna's Ham". It is complete and pulverizing, and the more so because the tale in which the hideous deed is done is a first rate piece of story telling in itself, keenly alive, and crowded with imaginative touches. The thing is studded with gems of Rabelaisian understatement, and it moves with a gallop of rustic passion...
...against the wall, the Fascist proceeded to inflict "scientific punishment" in true Italian style, after which he ejected the Communist violently out of a door into a cold, stone corridor. Farinacci, complacent, stalked back to his seat with the air of a man who had nobly performed a noble deed. The remaining Fascisti, taking their cue from Farinacci and totally oblivious of the entreaties of their more moderate comrades, flung 14 wriggling Communists from the Chamber...
...Sanskrit poetical literature, Professor Lanman described how the life of a Brahman is divided into four phases: first, the "Walk with God" or life as a student; second, the support of a family; third, the life of a forest hermit; fourth, the renunciation of the World. Karma (meaning "deed") was defined as inherited tendency, derived from some former existence, and Transmigration, as viewed by Brahman philosophy, was described as birth after birth until the Karma becomes sterile and unable to reproduce. In each successive existence, the bodily form has a relation to the previous existence; for instance...
...nearby desert island. There the perfidious sailors, led by a knave named Thinkwell, deserted them, stealing off by night with one of the long boats. Dying a respected man of property as such a character was sure to, Thinkwell left a written confession which, 70 years after the scurvy deed, fell into the hands of his grandson, a lecturer at Cambridge. Lecturer Thinkwell set out with his three children to investigate and, if possible, to right the wrong done by his unscrupulous forebear. For, thought he, there is a possibility that some may have survived. Allowing that the 40 orphans...
...recognized in the U. S. is still an open question. A U. S. Court has never determined whether, upon the subsequent remarriage of a man or woman divorced in Paris, the children of such second marriage would be legitimate so far as inheriting property under a will or deed of trust is involved. Edith Kelly Gould, second wife of Frank Gould, attacked in New York, on the ground of lack of jurisdiction by the French Courts, the divorce which her husband had obtained in Paris. This divorce was sustained, but the question is not considered closed. That there should...