Word: swear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...witness, Signor Zaniboni's secretary, Signor Carlo Quaglia, who betrayed him to the police, insinuated during the testimony certain remarks about Tito Zaniboni's private life. "Spy! Agent provocateur!" cried Signor Zaniboni, "you lured me on! I swear by all I hold sacred, by my little girl, that you yourself begged the honor of firing a second shot at Mussolini. ... I thought you were a spy till then. Then I believed you! . . . Pig! You shall not attack my morals or my honor or the name of any woman dear...
...mais oui!" shouted the Abbe Haegy suddenly, "I am French! VIVE!! VIVE LA FRANCE!! ... I withdraw my suit. . . . VIVE LA FRANCE!! . . . Look into my eyes, Monsieur, the eyes of a Frenchman, I swear it! VIVE LA FRANCE...
This will be invaluable for conversational purposes, since you saw it in Boston. Don't fall to mention the best actress-comedienne of them all, Pert Kelton, whose imitations are inimitable. And swear by Marlyn...
...patent in 1852. There were law suits, in which Edward A. Clark, Manhattan lawyer, represented Singer. Lawyer and client formed the Singer corporation. Mr. Hopper was their bookkeeper at $20 a week. To him they came. Said Singer: "Clark won't let me be president, and I swear I won't let him." Said Clark: "Our president ought to be a married man. The office requires some dignity. . . . Don't you know some nice girl that you would like to marry?" Mr. Hopper did know such a girl, married...
...Australians swear that this knee-wagging hip-smacking, arm-swinging dance, commonly thought by the U. S. to have originated with Carolina Negroes, started as a war dance in the Australian hinterland...