Word: deed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peasants for the Vagabond are a half mad lot. He sees them as a race of men who in one hand hold a knife over the head of a fair daughter, and in the other grasp a bottle of Vodka with which to wash away memory of the ugly deed. And the nobility, they carry on scandalously. Understand that this is only an impression gained of Russia which the Vagabond has created from his readings. He is a highly imaginative fellow with a passion for the sordid...
...your officers had yielded ... it would have injured the spiritual responses of the American people. It would have been a step on the pathway of Government doles. . . . We are dealing with the intangibles of life and ideals. ... A voluntary deed is infinitely more precious to our national ideals and spirit than a thousandfold poured from the Treasury. . . . In all this there is the imponderable of spiritual ideal and spiritual growth. . . . You have renewed and invigorated the spiritual life of the nation...
...attempt at realism but there is a fundamental difference. Weill & Brecht did it in a comparatively high-minded mood. They meant to exalt Lindbergh in the same epic style which the ancients used to exalt their heroes. Their intention was not to shock seasonsed concertgoers but to tell the deed "in terms intelligible to school children or to students at preparatory schools...
...Curley called it a "confession of moral bankruptcy." Bishop Dunn quoted His Holiness, Pope Pius XI: "Since, therefore, the conjugal act is destined primarily by nature for the begetting of children, those who in exercising it deliberately frustrate its natural power and purpose, sin against nature and commit a deed which is shameful and in- trinsically vicious. . . . No reason, however grave, may be put forward by which anything against nature may become conformable to nature and morally good." (TIME...
...nothing to the improvement of international relations. Furthermore, the mud-slinging and fireworks usually attending American trials might serve to make the Butler statement even more aggravating abroad. Already Senator Heflin has shouted in the Senate that the Italian dictator is a "red-handed murderer" guilty of a "dastardly deed...