Word: deed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bolshevik Frenchmen and Bolshevik Russians leagued suddenly against the German Nazis, Realmleader Hitler with pistol-shot rapidity spat out what he was doing about all this. At that very moment last week German troops on his orders were dashing into the Demilitarized Rhineland. He ignored the illegality of this deed under the Treaty of Versailles and maintained that the Franco-Soviet Treaty had voided the Locarno Pact, hitherto the main bulwark of peace in Western Europe...
...Chicago last week the Conference of Methodist Laymen chalked up its first substantial victory since it organized last summer to combat "radicalism" in the churches (TIME, Sept. 23). Though it refrained from publicly taking credit for the deed, the Conference had succeeded in easing a Methodist minister named Rev Dr. Archey D. Ball out of the pulpit he had held for four years in First Church Englewood...
...sublieutenant in a Chasseur regiment during the War, he won the coveted honor by valor in the field. . . . "In October 1916, under fierce enemy fire he succeeded in cutting an Austrian barbed wire entanglement and led a storming party to the capture of an important ridge position. By this deed he not only gained the highest military order of his country but a claim to be one of those to represent Rumania at the funeral of the King of England. Also he has inspired a Fleet Street legend that will be as difficult to kill as that of the Russian...
Thence to the stable to fetch Rozinante: "Rozinante, noble steed, together today we do our deeds. But first we eat!" All day long did ride Rozinante. All day long without a deed--until: "Goest thou my way, Noble Knight?" "Thy way, fair damsel, is my way. Whither?" "Thence, oh no, not to Emerson, surely not. This before us be a castle. So approaching little by little to the drawbridge I to check Rozinante; and did rest awhile to see whether or no any dwarf on the battlements gives warning that we three did approach; but seeing the dwarfs stayed...
...Jewish enemies was often successful in using some Germans as tools against Germans unselfishly devoted to the Fatherland. It was a proud page in the history of the Swiss and for the Germans living in Switzerland that no German and no Swiss could be found to do this deed. The instigator himself had to do it-the Jew! "You, Wilhelm Gustloff, enter the ranks of our nation's immortal martyrs!" concluded Adolf Hitler. "Gustloff will be the patron saint of all Germans living abroad. . . . We do not choose murderous methods! I must proudly state that our movement has never...