Word: deeded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When we meet on this anniversary of the Armistice, is it to celebrate the war, the victory, or the peace that followed? I do not know. But this insistent fact presents itself: that every thing man does must leave its trace indelibly in human lives; that an heroic deed has its effect upon the thoughts, and therefore on the acts, of other men. For us the value of the past lies in the future, and we measure that which has been done by what it makes us do. To honor those who have greatly lived and died is doubly right...
...modest and considerate is the price.) As obviously, the Guild cannot depend upon the ordinary playgoing public hereabouts. Otherwise, "regular" theatres would be housing "Ambush" and "March Hares" Little interested in so serious, sane, unselfish an undertaking are the highbrows by trademark. Encouragement in word, support in deed, must come from that younger public which would take its pleasure in the theatre, but would have that pleasure intelligent, candid, of life as it goes here and now. At the University that public is large, if careless. In every recess it flocks to theatres in New York doing what the Stage...
About Rasputine's death: "The Emperor was affected less by the deed itself than by the fact that it was the work of members of his own family [Grand Dukes Dmitri and Yusupoff]. ' Before all Russia,' he exclaimed, ' I am filled with shame that the hands of my kinsmen are stained with the blood of a simple peasant...
George W. Wickersham, Attorney General under President Taft, was scheduled to speak in Michigan University's Hill Auditorium, Nov. 2, on the League of Nations. The Board of Regents then remembered that when Arthur Hill gave Michigan the auditorium, he stipulated in the deed that it should never house " a partisan or political discussion." Interpreting Mr. Wickersham's topic as political, the Board announced that Mr. Wickersham would be obliged to seek another rostrum. This announcement was echoed by the Secretary of the University, who closed the doors of all buildings on his campus to Mr. Wickersham...
...Deed. A heavily wooded and lonely stretch of road in Greece. An automobile is approaching Santa Quaranta from Janina. In the car, Italian members of the International Commission for Delimitation of the Greco-Albanian frontier - General Tellini, Major Scorti, Lieutenant Conati, their interpreter and their chauffeur. The car is halted by a barricade of fallen trees. Shots ring out from the woods on either side of the road. . . . The five Italians are found dead. . . . The Greek Government expressed its profound regret to Italy. . . . The Ultimatum. The news of the murder was received throughout Italy with violent indignation. Demonstrations against Greece...