Word: meeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stages, was less doctrinal than political, and was anyhow not altogether to be attributed to the amorous ways of Henry VIII, but was part and parcel of an economic motive which despoiled the monasteries. "Money, money maketh man," said old Pindar, and the lines which Langland gives to Lady Meed show that while he was "the Catholic Englishman par excellence, at once the most English of Catholic poets and the most Catholic of English poets: a man in whom Catholic faith and national feeling are fused in a single flame," he perceived a real threat to Christianity in the rapacity...
...have been taught to work hard and gain from our acres everything they could possibly produce-to nurture our animals thriftily and gain from nature the last meed of God-given fertility. That is God's own command to us, as we can read in the Bible any time. But now they tell us that we raise too much. They tell us to leave some of our acres bare and watch them go to weed, and they come up and give us a little money and shoot our cattle on the ground, saying the cattle are starving and there...
...male candidates for her seat. She ran more than 2-to-1 ahead of her nearest opponent, Ossee Lee Bodenhamer, one- time National Commander of the American Legion. Louisiana's loud Senator Long had invaded Arkansas to campaign for her. "To him." she said. "I would deny no meed of praise or thanks." Mrs. Caraway's victory meant she would be the first woman to be elected to the Senate for a full six-year term...
...course, if you don't give us our due meed of praise in your valuable publication I shall be forced to perform a painful duty when next 1 visit your seaport: that is to shoot you so full of holes they can sift baled hay through...