Word: swear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eccentricity (he is followed wherever he goes by a faithful spittoon-bearer) and because he is as wily as Ulysses. Some time ago he was reported willing to be head puppet for the Japanese wire-pullers on two somewhat novel conditions: 1) he must be permitted to swear allegiance to Chiang Kaishek; 2) the Japanese must get out of China...
...want to swear," he said quietly...
Manhattan's fusty old First National Bank is long on tradition. No employe or officer may smoke, swear or tell risqué stories within its portals. Most desks are roll-tops and on their upper right-hand corners officers' hats are traditionally poised. Last week it looked as though another tradition were forming. For the retirement of First National's Chairman Jackson Eli Reynolds, a onetime lawyer who had no banking experience when he became First National president 17 years ago, gave complete command of Manhattan's ninth largest bank to President Leon Fraser, who also...
...being respectable, are a cheerfully depraved clan. Grandma is a gamy old bawd, who in her day plucked most of the primroses along the path. Her married daughter, Emma, is a talented and popular lady of the evening. Her granddaughter, Eva, too young to do anything worse than swear like a trooper, lines up at the starting post of womanhood ready to outrun the fastest of her family. Less stuffy folk than the Wallaces would be hard to find; they might say with Burns...
...never-changing nature reacts to his ever-changing environment. Some of the evidence for his theory: the description of how a fascist Church thumbscrewed and burned its subjects without even a semblance of justice (there is no recorded case of not guilty under the Inquisition) for refusing to swear undivided allegiance ; how Edward I expelled the Jews from England in 1290, taking their houses, their money, some times (accidentally) their lives. For tile rest, Professor Coulton himself describes the book as a scaffolding by which young students may climb to chisel details on the monument of knowledge. The analogy...