Word: deed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turn of the Screw. In St. Louis, Mrs. Grace C. Hill, protesting a new reduction in her tenants' rents, mailed area Rent Director Grover C. Vandover the deed to her house and a note: "You are no doubt in better position to operate the property at a profit under your restrictions, so here it is with my blessings...
...Rochester church's approximately 50 members were in favor of the split. Actually they had been working up to it ever since 1943, when two Rochester board members published pamphlets under the pseudonym "Paul Revere," reviving an old controversy over whether the Mother Church should operate under the Deed of Trust left by Founder Mary Baker Eddy. The deed, they argued, would have had the effect of making branch churches independent of the Mother Church in Boston...
...young republic's juiciest scandals. The real story, the Walzes conclude, was that a baby was born to Nancy that night, all right, but born dead, and that Richard disposed of it to save the family honor. In court, sullen Mrs. Randolph screened the deed with lies, waited till she got the erring lovers back home before she declared martial law in the family and assigned little sister Nancy to the most ignoble servant tasks...
...Bowles and French Albert (The Plague) Camus, Italian Ennio Flaiano has found Africa a fertile field in which to cultivate an existentialist viewpoint. The unnamed lieutenant who narrates The Short Cut feels that he was the victim of events; even his murder of the Ethiopian girl seemed a deed to which he was driven by forces beyond his control. But his conscience worked against him, carried him into a feverish world where he became convinced that his victim had given him leprosy. When his careful inquiries about the disease aroused a doctor's suspicions, he took off into...
...plans which would introduce the relatives as a fourth party to the deed, it seems to me that they would give kinsmen who were eager to read the will an unfair advantage...