Word: deeded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amid troublous times the Abbot secreted certain valuable deeds in a vast meat pie. Treacherous Steward "Jack" Horner filched and stole them out. Later this bold deed was totally emasculated in a nursery rhyme...
...social week, the President addressed the business or- ganization of the government, headed by Gen. Herbert M. Lord, Director of the Budget, hinting sternly that his veto of the proposed tax cut as too large was no impossibility. C. From one Luke W. Duffey, President Coolidge received gratis the deed to a 176-acre onion farm in Pulaski County, Ind. Taxes and mortgage interest were due. Donor Duffey explained that he had found it impossible to farm at a profit under present conditions and advised the new owner to exercise extreme efficiency or he would get deeper into debt...
...merely in deed but in words, Chief U. S. Delegate Hughes humbled himself, last week, to equality. He apologized charmingly, "I can't speak Spanish, you know." He deferred exquisitely, "I shall be constantly at the call of Dr. Bustamante...
Ferdinand Magellan went around the world in three years. Today, aviators are planning to do the deed in 15 days. But two Polish young men-Scoutmaster Jerzy Jelinski and Scout Henry Smosarski-are in no such hurry. They may take as long as the late Senor Magellan, for they are spreading good will among the Boy Scouts of the world. Fifteen months ago, they left Warsaw in a white-painted ("A Scout Is Clean") Ford, motored and lectured through Europe, were photographed with Benito Mussolini. Then they chugged across northern Africa, arrived in Manhattan on an export steamer a fortnight...
Wisely, modestly, Colonel Lindbergh has devoted far more space to such events and to his training days at Army camps than to the deed which the U. S. has recorded on the same page with Washington crossing the Delaware and Peary reaching the Pole...