Word: swear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pettee, strokes the pretty hair of Carol Gillman, an impetuous divorcee. The others discuss tactics. A gang of local "antis" come in, carry out the committee's two leaders, take them to a dark swamp, thrash them unconscious. Then they turn lights and police on their victims. "I swear!" they say. "They have been beating each other up. . . . Goddamn. They want to get us into trouble." The liberals leave Chew still bloody and uninvestigated...
...Frank set the standard," concluded his author, "that I understand all true Yale men to this day have lived up to--not to drink, not to smoke, and never to swear...
...Bangor to Eureka, Calif. Result is that Holy Old Mackinaw is a puzzler, with solid bits of unfamiliar industrial history sandwiched between slightly sophomoric tributes to vanished vice. Author Holbrook's loggers get into so many fights, frequent so many bawdy houses, sing so many logger songs and swear so many round oaths (of which Holy Old Mackinaw is one) that readers may wonder when they found time to cut down all those trees...
Began embarrassed proceedings in which the prosecutor successively persuaded the court either to exclude altogether or swear to secrecy almost everyone who was likely to have anything to do with the trial. Application for spectators' seats by a group of English clergymen who had arrived headed by the Bishop of Chichester was promptly rejected. Soon even Dr. Niemoller's three lawyers had been sworn not to say a word about the trial to anyone outside the court. Meanwhile, the whole German press obediently printed not a line in which the German people could read anything about the trial...
...issue last year, will not be present at the hearing tomorrow. He once told the committee on education that the teachers who had aided curing of the depression "were entitled to a vote of thanks; instead they were told in the cold voice of the ghost in Hamlet: 'swear, swear, swear...