Word: swear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effacement is not a quality of the 93 old Senators over whom Vice President Garner will preside this week. If they do not know it already, the three new Senators-Wyoming's O'Mahoney, Vermont's Gibson, New Mexico's Hatch-whom Mr. Garner will swear in on opening day, will soon learn that silence leads only to obscurity and defeat at the Capitol. Senator after Senator returned to let off accumulated six-months' blasts before their well-loved Washington soundboard...
...Elizabethan library where Samuel Seabury plotted Tammany's destruction some three years ago, last week swart little Fiorello Enrico LaGuardia faced a New York Supreme Court Justice reading him an oath of office. "I do so solemnly swear,'' snapped Mr. LaGuardia, thereupon turning and kissing the plain earnest woman who was once his secretary, is now his wife. "Now we have a Mayor of New York!" exclaimed delighted Inquisitor Seabury, who had whipped together the Fusion Party which turned bumbling Mayor John Patrick O'Brien out of office, turned Tammany upside down. To celebrate this deed...
...were in his eyes as different as Esau and Jacob. She admitted bedding with a neighbor. Everyone to whom Farmer Peddie talked declared that the idea of twins having different fathers was scientifically preposterous. For six years his suspicion of divided paternity rankled. Finally, Peddie found doctors who would swear in court that unlike twins were alwavs conceived from separate ova and sperms, usually simultaneously, occasionally hours apart, that it was biologically possible for the ova to be fertilized...
Pointedly absent was Chancellor Hitler. Night before the Reichstag met he had summoned all the Deputies, made them swear personal fealty to himself and then rushed off to Wilhelmshaven to greet the German battle cruiser Koln on her return from a round-the-world "goodwill cruise...
...comrade Fierro ceased to be a danger to American fascism. Terzani was arrested; there was the prescribed amount of cooked-up evidence, lax investigation of complete facts, desire on the part of the prosecutor for conviction not justice; and also there were loyal Khaki Shirts who were willing to swear that Terzani fired the shot that...