Word: oath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joyce's admirers, George Moore, W. B. Yeats, Edmund Gosse, meanwhile began to worry about his perennial poverty, succeeded in getting him ?100 from the Privy Purse, thought that Joyce should show his gratitude by aiding the Allied cause. Joyce, who was under oath to the Austrians not to bear arms and is resolutely unpolitical, thought he did enough by spreading British culture. He founded the English Players and put on his play Exiles...
...thing, Benito Mussolini and Vittorio Emmanuele III differ about the future of the House of Savoy. II Duce is amused by his little King, but far from amused by Crown Prince Umberto, Italy's most stubborn antiFascist. The Fascist oath of allegiance, once addressed "to the King and his successors," has been shorn of the last three words. Crown Prince Umberto rarely appears at Fascist celebrations. His sympathizers like to say that he once challenged Benito Mussolini to a duel, still speaks to him like a Prince addressing his Premier...
...sort of petition only call attention to the presence at Harvard of numerous "liberals" of this unwholesome type. Their publicity antics serve merely to convince the University that radical thinkers like Hicks constitute a dangerous influence on immature minds. Worse still, these agitators confirm the proponents of the Teachers' Oath Bill in their belief that academic liberties must be restrained. Avery Dulles...
Thomas Dorgan, chief proponent of the Teachers' Oath bill in the days when he was a member from Dorchester of the state legislature, has started a petition asking the University of Moscow to hire Granville Hicks, it was learned last night...
...time the Original Amateur Hour has turned up surprisingly few people who have got anywhere in big-time entertainment. Of the 5,000 who have signed the Major's "amateur's oath"-mouth organists, bell ringers, jug players, musical sawyers, garden-hose players, yodelers, tap dancers-most went back home to tend store, plow fields, marry, sell iceboxes with the memory of one shining moment in show business...