Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happiness, of romantic love. In a last chapter whose eloquence becomes all but desperate, he expounds his personal solution : a marriage in which fidelity is observed neither for love, money nor hope of inner reward but "by virtue of the absurd," that is, by virtue alone of having taken oath to it. Right or raving, De Rougemont's reasoning is often ingenious, always arresting, fascinating in detail...
Within the hall nearly 300 formally-clad Nassau bigwigs perspired in the heavy tropical heat while scarlet-robed, bewigged Chief Justice Oscar Bedford Daly advanced to administer the oath of office. In the khaki of a British major general, the nervous, unsmiling Duke shifted uncomfortably under a red, crown-emblazoned canopy, repeated the oath of allegiance: "I, Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Duke of Windsor, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King George, his heirs and successors according to law, so help me God." On a special dais, a step...
After formalizing the oath with his signature, the Duke replied to the welcoming addresses of the Council's President and the Assembly's Speaker: "I do not doubt that, like all other British colonies, you here in the Bahamas are confronted with the same problem of reconciling your local interests with the changed conditions which hostilities have imposed. It will be my endeavor, however long or short the duration of my term of office, to lend you a helping hand in your efforts to solve...
Boomed the manifesto: "Alert! Germans who have their country at heart! Argentines who would see their country as powerful as ours, instead of being weak and crumbling! You have sworn to keep a solemn oath! Hear our song of victory: 'Today Germany is ours and tomorrow the whole world will be ours.' . . . We expect you to imitate the example of your brothers in Holland and Belgium...
...opening proceedings took exactly eight minutes. Clerk of the Court Greffier Jardel read the oath: "Do you swear honestly and faithfully to fulfill your duties, to guard religiously the secrets of the deliberations, and to act throughout as a worthy and loyal magistrate?" One after another the seven justices said: "Je jure." Then Chief Justice Caous adjourned the court. The long and painstaking inquiry into the responsibility for France's defeat was scheduled to begin this week...