Word: betraying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chronic indebtedness finally compelled his retirement from Prime Minister Baldwin's cabinet in 1928. As chairman of Greater London & Counties Trust, Ltd. he has sought to stabilize his violently fluctuating fortunes. In business he has had his usual success and prominence. His heavily lined face and heavy-hanging hands betray his persistent fondness for strong drink. Last fortnight he lay critically ill in London with bronchial pneumonia, but was reported gaining with the aid of blood transfusions...
...Princetonian cannot from the very nature of the case take a stand on this problem. It is too personal; it is something which every man must decide for himself. But we violate no trust, we betray no confidence, when we point out that according to Professors Dana G. Munro's and Raymond Sontag's "Middle Ages" university students in that period were required to sign a pledge that in case they failed a course they would not "use a dagger or knife on their examiner...