Word: deed
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...Krassin, so the press minions averred, was shocked at the charge, asseverated that his sole duty was to maintain and constantly seek to strengthen the cordial relations existing between France and Russia; that he had not, either by word or deed, encouraged Communist propaganda and would not, nor would he be director of any activities against the social order of France. As for M. Voline, he had merely represented M. Krassin at a memorial meeting for the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen and had eulogized that dead leader...
...Western American realists in story writing, who have been courting precisely this bath of mirth for nearly four years. The execution is performed in a short story entitled "Anna's Ham". It is complete and pulverizing, and the more so because the tale in which the hideous deed is done is a first rate piece of story telling in itself, keenly alive, and crowded with imaginative touches. The thing is studded with gems of Rabelaisian understatement, and it moves with a gallop of rustic passion...
...against the wall, the Fascist proceeded to inflict "scientific punishment" in true Italian style, after which he ejected the Communist violently out of a door into a cold, stone corridor. Farinacci, complacent, stalked back to his seat with the air of a man who had nobly performed a noble deed. The remaining Fascisti, taking their cue from Farinacci and totally oblivious of the entreaties of their more moderate comrades, flung 14 wriggling Communists from the Chamber...
...Sanskrit poetical literature, Professor Lanman described how the life of a Brahman is divided into four phases: first, the "Walk with God" or life as a student; second, the support of a family; third, the life of a forest hermit; fourth, the renunciation of the World. Karma (meaning "deed") was defined as inherited tendency, derived from some former existence, and Transmigration, as viewed by Brahman philosophy, was described as birth after birth until the Karma becomes sterile and unable to reproduce. In each successive existence, the bodily form has a relation to the previous existence; for instance...
...nearby desert island. There the perfidious sailors, led by a knave named Thinkwell, deserted them, stealing off by night with one of the long boats. Dying a respected man of property as such a character was sure to, Thinkwell left a written confession which, 70 years after the scurvy deed, fell into the hands of his grandson, a lecturer at Cambridge. Lecturer Thinkwell set out with his three children to investigate and, if possible, to right the wrong done by his unscrupulous forebear. For, thought he, there is a possibility that some may have survived. Allowing that the 40 orphans...