Word: deed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theme is a threadbare one. Young Margaret is wronged by smoothie John, way down in Virginia; smoothie John, sensibly enough, proceeds, to forget all about his deed, he being a soldier, and there being a war in France. He comes back, handsome as over, but still forgets, and Margaret and Sonny toddle along on their own. Finally, she dies, and this accident, plus the Stock Market crackup brings Boles around. The last we see of him is a paternal scene with John taking care of the irritable little Mistake. What would have been a blithery piece is rescued by Margaret...
...Tammany brush; and McKee spends his time replying to Judge Seabury's attacks. This is all according to Tweed; but Holy Joe McKee injected an interesting sideshow to the three-ring circus yesterday when he brought out masses of evidence to prove that Laguardia was in thought, and in deed a true Communist of the most virulent sort. By a chain of irrefutable logic he showed that since Comrade Fiorello had signed his name to the roster of Professor John Dewey's League for Independent Political Action, and since that revolutionary organization had printed one or two issues of semi...
...bitingly sareastic caricature of that figure of the modern football world so familiar to the undergraduates who have brown to their estate in that era of Rackety-Rax athletics and sportsmanship. The sarcasm, however, never leads one to feel that truth has been sacrificed to the deed. "Eddie," of course, is a composite; his image is not applicable without qualification to all the Banghams of this world but it strikes close...
...Killjoys." On the labor front Premier Göring has taken steps to squash "defeatism," denning it as "any kind of work or deed that is contrary to praise of the present regime. . . . Persons making such remarks may be designated as killjoys. . . . Killjoys will be treated as camouflaged Marxists" [i. e. marched off to Nazi prison camps...
Sterilizers Punished A Michigan jury decided last week that although it may be legal to sterilize a mental incompetent, the deed is not necessarily impunible. The decision warned judges, prosecutors, sociologists and doctors in the 27 States which permit sterilization to watch their...