Word: oathing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...promise of Mr. Smith to enforce the prohibition law and the 18th Amendment is no more sacred than the oath he took to enforce the 18th Amendment when he became Governor of New York...
...foot Sultan, who scorns and rejects Occidental customs, yet is shrewd enough to entertain visiting British statesmen with their favorite brands of whiskey, mineral water, and even "kippers." When the Britons are gone, all residual whiskey & soda & kippers are abandoned on the desert by Ibn Saud, who, with an oath to Allah, bounds saddleward, up and away...
...Knights of Columbus seem a mild and indeed a charitable organization. It will not therefore be easy for the average person to believe that the above great swear is the fourth degree oath of the Knights of Columbus. There are those, however, who know better, and who have spent thousands of dollars circulating copies of this oath among ignorant Protestants. Aware of this and aware also that the oath has never and will never be a part of its ritual, the Knights of Columbus, meeting in National Conference last week in Cleveland, promised to prosecute six unnamed organizations and persons...
Prohibition: "The President of the United States has two constitutional duties with respect to prohibition. The first is embodied in his oath of office. If, with one hand on the Bible and the other hand reaching up to Heaven, I promise the people of this country that 'I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, you may be sure that I shall live up to that oath to the last degree...
...recognize the logic behind the theory or to be swayed by the prejudice which exists in the minds of God-fearers against those who are infidels. Thus Mrs. Marshall prepared last week an appeal to the Supreme Court based upon the probable falsity of her husband's oath...