Word: deed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League has heard in years came last week at Lyons from French Premier Leon Blum. His speech, while proposing nothing specific, was an overture of goodwill toward Germany, hopefully intended to woo Der Führer out of any intention he may have to shake Europe with another violent deed before the Reichstag meets at Adolf Hitler's call Jan. 30. "Our objective," cried Premier Blum, "is for a settlement of European problems as a whole. . . . We are members of the League of Nations, faithful to its principles and loyal to its Covenant! We have linked friendships which...
Alice propped her face up in her sticky hands and went on reading dreamingly: "In 451 A.D. King Theodoric united his forces with the Romans and defeated Atilla at the Battle of Chalons, thus saving France from the rule of the Huns. For this deed alone European civilization owes a great debt to the brave leader of the Visigoths. The Bessemer process, for making steel without carbon was invented by Henry Bessemer in 1855, and is one of the chief factors behind the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century...
...years before, and talk with the captain about the lore of the lands they passed. Passing Aden he thought of Rimbaud's tragic fate, and of how strange it was that the Frenchman should be the favorite poet of "a man so immaculate in thought, word and deed as Mr. Anthony Eden." Passing Ethiopia he thought of Conrad, who wrote a chapter of Almayer's Folly in a steamer named Adowa. His mind richly stored with literary and historical illustrations, everything that happened seemed to remind Bruce Lockhart of some celebrated incident...
There is perhaps no deed of Cyrano de Bergerac, that redoubtable French anticipation and compound of Babe Ruth, George Washington and Dr. Sarkas, which has so endeared him to the public as his rustication of Montfleury, the contemporary ham. And who has not cursed whatever gods may be, during the torture of any especially unfortunate and protracted turn, that the spirit of Cyrano was not reborn in him, and that he could not produce a sword from beneath the seat which didn't even have enough room for his knees, and drive the offender headlong from the stage...
...dark, and must needs be set off with some happy pictures, both for contrast and for encouragement. In the words of James M. Curley, the man who has plumbed the depths of all human emotion. "How far the little candle sends its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world", and it is in this spirit that we are given two little pictures, one of the "Eugenics Baby" who has just wed, and one of F. D. R., God bless him, collecting stamps...