Word: deed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abel) to trap a relative who has been trying to poison her. Returning from the tomb, she personally executes her would-be assassin, neatly shifts the blame to another. Between waves of goose-pimples, audiences have spells of apprehension lest good old Walter Abel get himself hanged for a deed...
...light of current Republican attacks it is to be remembered that Roosevelt himself declared that what the American people want "more than anything else" is work and security. There were also promises that: (1) No government official by word or deed would attempt to influence the prices of stocks or bonds. (2) That he believed in "the sacredness of private property and in individualism. (3) That "without becoming a prying bureaucracy" the government would check corrupt financial practices. (4) Special advantages favors, or privileges were to be eliminated by the government...
...heralded demonstration against a German man-o'-war run off by Boston communists and their contingent of sympathizers from Harvard and M.I.T., according schedule. However the battle of the navy yard, like most Red rallies, was pretty much a deed loss, hostilities having ceased without the respective prestiges of the demonstrators, Herr Hitler or the Charlestown police being raised or lowered appreciably in public esteem...
...front cover) Since the Roosevelt Administration's fist shot out and smashed the aviation industry suddenly and solidly between the eyes, two months had passed and last week, its sleeves rolled down, its face still pink for the consequences of its deed, the Administration was ready to help the industry to its feet again. Chief causes of the Administration's lasting embarrassment were the interred or incinerated remains of 13 military flyers who died when the Army, on notice too short for proper preparation, was given the nation's airmail to fly. A secondary cause...
...expected that members of the Lampoon, undergraduate humorous publication, should advance with characteristic reticence to assume responsibility for Daniel's surreptitious abduction, but there are grounds for the belief that the deed was effected far too cleverly to admit the faltering technique of amateurs--however practiced they may be in pursuit of dame publicity. A great deal more basis is there for the surmisal that the thing was purely an inside job, and that Daniel, collar, leash, attractive physiognomy and all--fell victim to dissension within his own camp. His ministry has not been wholly a successful one, and other...