Word: swearers
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...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...
...Assistant Secretary William D. Hassett. Lank, grey, stooped Bill Hassett, 64, got a little flustered, for the President abruptly announced that this was a court-martial; that he, Bill, had been accused of using some very bad language and the group was gathered to see how good a swearer he really was. Forthwith joke-loving Franklin Roosevelt handed Bill Hassett a commission as full presidential secretary, to succeed the late Marvin Mclntyre...
...from nearby Cullman County calling for the arrest of one John D. Chambliss, who "gave a challenge in words and in person to fight in combat a duel with John Stevens and Erwin Stevens and to fight a duel with a deadly weapon, to wit, a pistol.'' Swearer of the warrant was Farmer Erwin Stevens...
...SWEARER'S PRAYER...
...Swearer, this is thy prayer. Oh, dreadful imprecation! Oh horrible, most horrible! . . . Oh, let thine oaths be turned into supplications...