Word: swear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fishermen twelve miles off the Louisiana mainland in Caillou Bay are inclined to swear when they come in sight of what looks like a gigantic harbor buoy sticking up between two scows. A structure they think improper to the high seas, this is no buoy but one of several oil derricks erected in the bay by Texas Co. Called "deep-sea drilling," Texaco's operations are in water no deeper than 25 ft., but geophysical crews mapping off-shore contours often have to take dynamite soundings. The fishermen claim that any fish not killed or scared clean to Cuba...
Guernica, a village of 10,000 souls, has a small munitions factory and barracks on its outskirts. Guernica is also the traditional capital of the Basques. To this town Spanish sovereigns, including Ferdinand & Isabella, went to swear by the stump of an ancient oak tree to protect the ancient privileges of the Basque people. The tree of Guernica is prominent on the Basque flag. Basque deputies met biennially in their "Holy City" to legislate...
...Paris last week was Count Charles de Chambrun, retired French Ambassador to Rome recovering from a pistol shot in the groin, fired by sultry Madeleine de Fontanges who accused him of breaking up her romance with Benito Mussolini (TIME, March 29 et seq.). Cried the Count: "I swear I never in my life occupied myself with Mme de Fontanges' personal affairs...
...British residents of Southwest Africa are in future to be barred from all public offices in the mandate unless special permission has been obtained. 2) Non-Britons may not address public meetings, vote, or otherwise influence public bodies. 3) British subjects in Southwest Africa who swear allegiance to any head of a state or government other than that of George VI are liable to ?100 ($500) fine, a year's imprisonment or both...
...Joyce's Ulysses, but if so he will go down fighting. Ever since the publication of James Joyce's big book (1922), legends of Dr. Gogarty's near-mythical person have been stealing round the world like a slow smile. His many friends in Dublin could swear he was flesh-&-blood, but it was not till this week that the struggle for existence between the live doctor and the fictitious medical student began to look like a fair fight. Gogarty had published in the U. S. two books of verse (Wild Apples and Selected Poems; TIME...