Word: deed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they had not a regard for law, such as no great people have yet evinced, and infinitely surpassing ours,--the multiplicity of authorities in the American Constitution would long ago have brought it to a bad end. Sensible shareholders, I have heard a shrewd attorney say, can work any deed of settlement; and so the men of Massachusetts could, I believe, work and Constitution...
...nightmare of bureaucratic reorganization has long haunted the White House. Year after year has seen new bureaus formed and inserted with little deliberate consideration in to handy departments. The result is chaotic irresponsibility reduplication, useless expense and inefficiency. Reformers and students have long demanded changes, but courageous in deed would be the president first to buck the ire and political weight of the government bureaucracy. Opponents of Mr. Hoover will search with considerable success for points of attack in this message. They will delight in its incompleteness and lack of forcefulness. But nothing will suit their purpose better than...
...genuinely exciting last act, he defends himself before the bar of the Senate in a trial conducted by Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, whose judicial behavior is a good shade in favor of Lincoln. It takes 19 votes to save the President, and your scalp is in deed a tough one if it fails to tingle when the deciding vote is about to be cast. High praise goes to Playwright Good man, whose piece won a little theatre tournament last year, for an ably conceived and ably executed feat of historical imagination. Praise too is due a cast which...
...views. One view is that the U. S. is blessed among nations to have available for the White House a man whose life and works have been so admirable. The other view is that the sum total of his 50 years are not sufficiently significant, in thought, word or deed, to warrant his elevation to the highest position in the land...
...Kitted presents the case of a hypersensitive French soldier who, when the War is over, is tortured by remembering a young German whom he stabbed to death in the trenches. Just how this grisly recollection affects the Frenchman becomes clear when a priest, to whom he has confessed his deed as though it were a crime, reassures him by pointing out that he has merely done his duty. "Duty?" says the bewildered Frenchman, "why is it my duty to kill?" Eventually he goes to the German village of Falsburg-un-Baden and to an address which he had read...