Word: swear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...built, sturdy, with more spring to his step than most men half his age, and reported by one of the most competent newspaper men in Washington to be the best poker player in either House of Congress. He is everybody's friend. His colleagues call him Charlie. His constituents swear by him as they would swear by a trusted Ford or a well-tried almanac. He knows an amazing number of them personally. Twenty years ago this month, when he had already served fourteen years in Congress, he was quoted in the New York Sun as saying that he never...
...deteriorated from the exalted pastime it was meant to be, that the men who still make a living from it changed its character. It was on top of Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, Ga., that the Klan's 34 adventurous founders met on Thanksgiving Day, 1915, to swear their tremendous oath, but last week it was in stuffy meeting halls and hackneyed offices that Klansmen met to obey the following "edict" of Emperor and Imperial Wizard Hiram W. Evans...
...meditations he bethought him of the Hippocratic Oath which doctors swear...
Justice Proskauer sat down and busily drew up a lawyer's oath. He would have every lawyer fortify his oath of admission to the Bar, saying: "I swear I will join with my adversary in waiving a jury trial wherever and whenever it can possibly be done without the sacrifice of a fundamental right. I will join with my adversary in supporting a trial Justice in fair comment upon the evidence and reasonable direction to a jury on the facts. I will join with my adversary in fair concession of undisputed facts...
...Santa Anna on the banks of the San Jacinto River near the site where Houston City later rose. Sam Houston was the first and only president of the Republic of Texas (1836-1845). He was U. S. Senator from Texas from 1846 to 1859. Elected Governor, he refused to swear allegiance to the Confederacy, was deposed...