Word: deed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he had finished his address, Senator Robinson's fellow-members went climbing over their desks to pump his hand in congratulation for a deed many of them had long lacked the nerve to do. But the price to be paid for trading parliamentary mud with the "Kingfish" was soon exacted. Returning to the fray, the button-nosed Louisianian accused Senator Robinson of double-crossing him on patronage, asserted that President Roosevelt had told him [Long] to keep Senator Robinson "in trouble," revealed that Senator Robinson had made his brother-in-law Federal Rice Administrator in Louisiana. "Threatening...
...jurist, a man who made his mark on the world through the power and justice of his intellect, through hours of painful and thorough work, through consistent disregard of self and consideration of first principles first; not through the seizing of a propitious moment for one rash deed of physical courage...
...Deed of gift that founded the House specified that its activities be directed toward social service. Certainly the day student at Harvard is not a fit object of social service, nor does he desire to be considered as such. But what is more to the point, in providing facilities for commuters, Phillips Brooks has lost its identification, both in reputation and actual practice with the social work it was intended to perform. In the eyes of resident underclassmen, P.B.H. has come to be looked on as a self-sufficient commuters unit, comparable to a House, and, hence, an organization with...
What. Just as regular newshawks make the events of yesterday live again in print, so The March of Time undertakes to recreate them on the screen by the simple process of going back to the "scene of action and getting the characters to repeat themselves in word and deed...
...Administrator Choate and found that use of the picture had not been "authorized." called up Attorney General Cummings to ask whether Schenley could not be prosecuted. In all the maze of New Deal laws the Attorney General could find none that entitled him to sue the distillers for their deed...