Word: deed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simple way ingratiates himself with the guests. Promoters of a fake stock company appear on the scene and try to buy the hotel in exchange for stock. "Mother" (the wife) is all in favor of the idea, but Lightnin' distrusts the men and refuses to sign the deed. Mother institutes proceedings for divorce, but just in time the false promoters are exposed, and there is a happy reunion...
Impatient, Dr. John Harvey wanted to supervise his own benevolence. He sold his interest in the food concern to Will Keith for almost a quarter of a million dollars, and almost at once founded the Race Betterment Foundation (1906). A more intimate good deed was his legal adoption of 14 orphans and his complete support of some twoscore more. The profits of his profitable Battle Creek Sanitarium go to such works (TIME...
...Book of Simon's expense, said she was staggered at "the increasing disposition of Englishmen to become mothers." Said she, what will Simon do when he grows up and sees what his father wrote about him? "There will be nothing for the lad to do except embark on deed after deed of violence, rising to a climax of unimaginable crime. . . . In fact I can imagine that in 1950 the names Christopher Robin and Simon may not mean at all what they do to the belletrist public of today. They may mean something not very different from what Bugs Moran...
...more syllables by the formula of substituting "re" for "dis" as in "regusted," and "ul" for "or" as in "incorpulated." The story deals with a party to which Duke Ellington's orchestra, of Harlem's famed Cotton Club, are driven in the Fresh Air Taxi, and with the deed to some southern property. It must have been hard to make up and it is wearily told. Typical shot: Amos & Andy in the haunted house...
...located so conveniently that one of the convicts has no difficulty initiating a love-affair with the best-looking female prisoner; 2) the escape of certain prisoners dressed as women, who get out to help a pal of theirs in trouble and come back as soon as their good deed is done. Only intentionally funny sequence-the baseball game between rival convict teams...