Word: deeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While wife Eleanor Holm was vacationing in Florida, Showman Billy Rose called the Manhattan police to his expensive Beekman Place house, flashed his property deed, then ordered private detectives to break the locks with a heavy screwdriver. When the doors were open, Billy, police and reporters made a brief inspection of the five-story building. About 90% of his "treasures," Billy announced after a solemn survey, had been "looted." Billy had been trying to get in ever since Eleanor locked him out last year. How could he keep up the insurance on his treasures, he wanted to know, until...
During World War II, the big movie companies made 16-mm. prints of feature movies to show in Army camps and hospitals all over the world. Last week Hollywood was brooding on the adage: a good deed never goes unpunished. The U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit to compel twelve major film companies to sell their 16-mm. prints to television...
...look was enough to convince both oilmen and critics that Patron Standard had accomplished a worthy deed. Such notable artists as Peter Hurd, Joe Jones and Thomas Hart Benton had taken part, and they had worked hard to catch the industry's roaring youth and hard-muscled energy. In bright oils and deft watercolors, they pictured the bustling Louisiana refineries, the purposeful ranks of derricks marching across western plains, the clanging docks where oil tankers are unloaded. There were scenes of an oilfield set in the middle of a Venezuelan lake, of the eerie orange glow from burning natural...
...told a sergeant major. "If you shoot them, I will see to it that you yourself are shot when the Americans reach here." The authority in her words and manner was too much for the noncom. The gates were opened and the four walked out. "It was the bravest deed I ever saw," said one of the officers later...
Citation: "He has given his life to Christian missionary work . . . in 64 countries he has helped 15 million people learn their A B Cs in 239 languages and dialects. An evangelist of literacy. In method unique. In spirit naive. In Godliness practical. He has loved men . . . in deed and in truth...