Word: avowal
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...French political dirt because he was Chairman of the Chamber's Stavisky Committee. Accusingly last week Old Guernut shouted across the Chamber at Premier Pierre Laval: "The plotting of the Fascist Leagues is undeniable! Their object is to substitute for the Republic a Fascist regime. They themselves avow it and Colonel François de La Rocque announces as imminent a seizure of power by his Croix de Feu. Not one of the men who have been brought before the highest court of the land, during the last 50 years, for treason ever menaced the country so seriously...
...stand ready to avow or disavow promptly and explicitly any precise or definite opinion which I may be charged with having declared of any Gentleman. More than this cannot fitly be expected from me. ... I trust, on more reflection, you will see the matter in the same light with me. If not. I can only regret the circumstances; and must abide by the consequences...
...what we do not want to do and coercion cannot make us. . . . No one with the slightest sense of history would try to fit such people into a regimented scheme, would try to think for them instead of getting them to think for themselves. . . . In this respect I unhesitatingly avow myself a thorough conservative...
First part, titled As It Was, appeared under the initials "H. T." in 1927. found so many readers Mrs. Thomas decided to continue her story and avow her authorship. First & last a lovestory, it is outspoken to the breaking-point. Uncaustic Critic John Middleton Murry calls it "a love that was so utterly candid as it was utterly innocent...
...score of famed U. S. writers, "Who is Bob Davis?" and you will hear: "He published my first story"; "He kept me from starving"; "He gave me my only encouragement." Not authors alone, but many a prizefighter, statesman, explorer, doctor, will avow: "If Bob Davis wants my shirt, it's his." For of Robert Hobart Davis, editorial writer of the New York Sun, onetime associate editor of Munsey's, it is scant exaggeration to say he has "been everywhere, knows everybody." His column in the Sun headed "Bob Davis Recalls:" is an inexhaustible diary of encounters with...