Word: deed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...common honesty I do not mean only that we shall keep our fingers out of the public pocket. I do not mean only that we shall abstain from stealing the public money or giving away the public lands. I mean honesty in thought as well as honesty in deed...
...Extraordinary Deed...
...Newburyport, Mass., one Mrs. Effie M. Beal received a letter from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, concluding: "We therefore wish to present to you, in the name of our society, its medal as a token of our admiration and high regard for this extraordinary deed of humanity...
...Beal did her deed last January. Sledding through the woods in Maine, her husband came upon an old mother bear, shot her, discovered a tiny cub between her paws. Mrs. Beal cried: "Just like my own baby," snatched the cub to her breast, took it home, suckled it with her own infant, reared it until it became large and troublesome...
Thus was the deed done. It had been anticipated, but it remains, nevertheless, the greatest success which Messrs. La Follette and Wheeler have so far achieved...