Word: deed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been kept. In times of emergency the Gay-pay-oo merely work down the list. Examinations are still guided by the rule of Lenin's famed Terrorist Executioner Latsis: "Do not look for clues in a case, whether the arrested man rebelled against the Soviets by word or by deed. First of all, you must ask him what class he belongs to, what is his extraction, what is his education and what is his profession. It is these questions that must decide the fate of the accused; this is the meaning and the substance of the Red Terror...
...remarkably late hour last night, the steamroller had not been towed away, neither had the malefactor presented himself to the indignant Colonel. However, the alert student body had begun to suspect that the deed was but a prank on the part of one of Harvard's inveterate wags...
...report (TIME, Nov. 19, p. 40) of the recognition once accorded such literary greats as "France's" Maeterlinck and more especially Sweden's" Björnson serves only to accentuate the injustice done that staunch English patriot Eamon De Valera. Surely his contributions in word and deed to the development of a better understanding between neighboring people call for the award of a Nobel prize, that for the promotion of peace being perhaps the most appropriate...
Indeed TIME does not intend to be deliberately offensive to Southern people. TIME'S only intent is to report significant news. By word and deed directed toward the Negro, Southern people help make that news. Southern Congressmen made news when they barred Negro Congressman Oscar De Priest's Negro friends from the House of Representatives' Restaurant (TIME, April 2). Perhaps Southern Congressmen will make more news when Negro Congressman Arthur Mitchell takes his House seat. TIME'S use of the word "gentleman" was well-advised. As such, under the House's parliamentary rule, Negro Mitchell...
Soon snagged were the proceedings on a curious clause in a deed of separation which the Russells had signed in 1932. Entitled "Rose v. a Rose," it contained mutual forgiveness for all marital infidelities up to Dec. 31, 1932. Countess Russell charged her husband with adultery in 1933. "This mutual condonation prevents any inquiry into my adultery," said she, "which I admit because my husband condoned...