Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Duly impressed by this powerful oath, the Court suspended both sentences...
...aside sentiment and gallantry to send Thomas Lindsay Blanton back to the House of Representatives. So impatient was he to take his old seat and rattle the chamber's glass ceiling once more with his mighty voice that he beat his credentials to Washington, was denied the oath of office until they arrived...
...soldiers may well feel proud of this intercession of the Lord. Today we are thinking of those who fell. They marched to the battlefront praying, trusting in the righteousness of their cause. True to their oath, they died for the Kaiser and the Reich, for German fame and honor. We owe it to them to assert all our strength to retain that for which they died. We promise to do that in unshakable faith and with our eyes fastened upon the Savior of the world, who once prayed also for German soldiers. Then we, too, shall earn the praise...
...adulterous wife is more punishable than the man (supposing him single) who committed the offense with her because she has betrayed a marital trust. A bribe-taking public official is likewise more punishable, because he has betrayed a public trust, than the bribe-giver, who is under no specific oath of honesty. The net result of last week's trial was to make the $100,000 Doheny gave Fall a legitimate loan, but the $100,000 Fall took from Doheny a corrupt bribe...
Solemn was Alba as he took his new ministerial oath at Madrid last week, but directly afterward he said with a grin to Dictator Berenguer: "I have never been a diplomatist, and, although my family has such qualifications, they are not necessarily hereditary, but I shall do my best to serve Spain...