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...Marshal Bado-glio's son, Mario. Another was Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, 84, Italy's member of the Big Four who made the Versailles Treaty. The onetime Premier withdrew from public life in 1925, abandoned even the teaching of law when the Fascists asked an oath of loyalty in 1931. Orlando had been living quietly near the Porta Pia, just happened to be passing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Death at 84 | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...Stands for Hays Office. What is the Hays Office? The Hays Office is the office that saves you from being corrupted by any and all sin in the cinema. . . . There is a pledge of honor. . . . This oath is usually sung by the novitiate with the assistance of a massed choir. Novit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hollywood Heckled | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

Holy stone: archaic nautical oath...

Author: By Ens. STIMSON Bullitt, | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 12/17/1943 | See Source »

...With each installment they received a memento: with justice, a red poppy and a copy of the U.S. Constitution; with freedom, a tiny flag; with democracy, the bronze Legion emblem. They raised their right arms-all except the veteran who had left his on Guadalcanal-to take the Legion oath. The commander spread his arms in a clerical gesture, intoned again: "Comrades, I welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Blood | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

Mary Martin of Broadway (One Touch of Venus) told New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson that when she was "disgusted" her favorite oath was, "Oh, plop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 8, 1943 | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

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