Word: oathing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Cummins, President pro tem of the Senate, administered the oath of office...
...other hand, we do like our English diluted. A few words here and there in italics harm no one and give the reader a good deal of innocent pleasure. French is the most accustomed seasoning. A good round French oath makes all the difference, particularly in a detective story. Arsene Lupin is nowhere so redoubtable as where he breaks into his native idiom. A good part of the art of translation consists in knowing when not to translate. The result is that practically any current translation from the French reads like a perfumery advertisement on a theatre program...
...write it, no one can object to his denying the fact," continued Mr. Vanderlip. The winner is under oath to conceal his identity...
...knowledge that the plan is definitely not Hudson's comes as a blow to those members of the University who have been hoping that the winner was a Harvard man and that Professor Hudson's denial was forced by an oath of secrecy...
Finally Roosevelt III is about to be inaugurated before an assemblage including flag-draped statues of G. Washington and A. Lincoln. The oath of office is read and T. R. Ill denounces it, claiming absolute power. Then C. Putnam emerges dramatically from the base of the Lincoln statue. A follower of Roosevelt shoots. The bullet nicks Lincoln and ricochets off. The bullet embeds itself firmly and fatally...