Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Convict Fall under the Federal parole law which meant he could be released in four months. Still pending against him, however, is a $100,000 fine. To clear that debt without paying it, Bribee Fall must remain an extra 30 days in jail and take the pauper's oath...
...Royalist factions decided that the way to restore the monarchy was to elect Old Paul, most faithful of the Kaiser's servants, President of the Reich to succeed President Ebert. They did, but they forgot the old man's sense of duty. When he took the oath to defend the German Constitution he meant every word of it. He has not deviated. Germans mistrust their politicians but they trust Old Paul. They know he is incorruptible, ein' feste burg. That Iron Chancellor Brüning is a Hindenburg disciple is his greatest strength...
Vividly Benito Mussolini described how his own Cabinet and Party works. "In the regime's private meetings we discuss ardently," he said, "but at a certain moment I say: 'The case has been heard!' and the discussion ceases. I then decide and everybody obeys. An oath of obedience is sworn on entering the Fascist party...
...which, now ignorantly identified with the flippancies of a decadent court, preceded and precipitated the French Revolution. Large somber canvases, they exclude flippancy and tell, with a dignified and almost Alexandrine rhythm, the most ennobling dramas of classical history-The Rape of the Sabines, Leonidas at Thermopylae, The Oath of the Horatii, Brutus, The Grief of Andromache and, most somber and perhaps imposing of all, the Death of Socrates-called, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, ''the greatest effort of art since the Sistine Chapel and the Stanze of Raphael...
...year or two after the completion of his Socrates, public enthusiasm for Painter David's sketch for the picture of The Oath of the Tennis Court and his strong but not violent republicanism caused him to be elected to the September 1792 Convention. The next year, he voted for the death of Louis XVI. Later he became President of the Convention, found French inspiration for his pictures of historic catastrophes- Last Moments of Lepelletier de Saint-Farceau, Marat Assassinated. When Napoleon became Emperor. Painter David portrayed him seated on a fiery horse, pointing the road to Italy...