Word: swear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solemnly swear that my right, proper and legal name is Solomon Horowits and further swear that my pawnshop is at 12½ S. Orange...
...further swear, in explanation, that Horowits (spelled with an s) was the name of my father, my grandfather, my great grandfather, and all other of my ancestors in the male line known to me, and that therefore my name is similarly spelled. I swear that Solomon is my given name although sometimes I have been familiarly and improperly called...
...County Antrim. He grew. At nine his mother brought him and six younger brothers to America. They settled on a farm in Indiana, near Valparaiso. He got some education. He tried school teaching three times and quit from boredom. He became a printer's devil and learned to swear. He became a butcher and failed in business. He became a teamster on railroad construction work, and went to Knox College at Galesburg...
Fitch. The nastiest remarks of the convention week were made by Albert Parker Fitch, famed preacher and ex-professor of Amherst. Dr. Fitch said that schoolboys and college boys were stupid. They swear, said he, and read immoral books and athleticize themselves and are remarkably bad. This speech received most of the press-comment. Said the press, in effect: "Once we listened to Dr. Fitch as the great Jeremiah of our age, but he begins to talk too loud. The louder he talks the less we listen...
...think that they were sent to college to make money or to get married" he assumes that college men do not realize that it is obviously, a simple matter to achieve both of these triumphs without any education at all. That is an axiom of American history. And "they swear like pirates because their vocabularies are so limited that they have no other means of expression". After all, this reflection on one's vocabulary is only a sly shot at the college author fair target but there are certainly occasions, which Dr. Fitch neglects, on which anything but solid, sturdy...