Word: swearer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest pride is his job as official swearer-in. Said Mr. Will: "I swear in all foreign service employees, and as long as I swear them in, they are going to stand up and raise their right hands. It is a very important and solemn thing, and I insist on it." But some of his chores are more complicated. He remembers with embarrassment the time when he had the ashes of a diplomat shipped back by diplomatic pouch. When the pouch was opened in Washington, Mr. Will found that the cardboard container had split, and the ashes were spilled...
...Dave Krivitzky of the Big Green at the tape by a matter of inches. The Dartmouth runners tonight will be Reggie Pierson, Sam Daniel, Pete McCreary, and Sam Daniel. Yale's entries are Warren Norris, Bill Easton, Pete White, and Rollie Sultze. Princeton has Roy Snable, Joe Bolster, Bill Swearer, and Ronnie Akoley...
...didn't you say so?" Wooden Soldiers. It is Graves's grave conclusion that the growing decadence of what was once called Christendom is leading to a point where even when the swearer has a full, fruity vocabulary his soul will be too withered to put proper punch into even his most foul-mouthed efforts. This decadence has even seeped into the British army, Graves avers; but since Britons do their best with their backs to the wall, a few drill sergeants here and there are fighting a magnificent rearguard action. When "positive swearing" fails to impress their...
...Vote. How little, muses Graves, does today's crude swearer reflect the high polish of his Chinese predecessor. On the other hand, he has also lost the Elizabethan faculty for fairly plastering his "opponent" with a custard-pie onslaught of laborious, invidious obscenities. Moslems still manage this very well, says Graves, but some of their English-speaking contemporaries have grown so dependent on the single epithet "bloody" (probable origin: "by 'r Lady") that they can hardly grasp the meaning of any word without its assistance. As instance, Author Graves quotes two Britons discussing whether any man should...