Word: swearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, Cinemactress Arline Judge, whose fifth husband, Bob Topping, succeeded Talbot as Lana's friend, wasn't holding still for a divorce. "It'll take me a long time to ruin this one," she raged to the New York Post's Earl Wilson, "but. . . I swear on my baby's head, I'll ruin him for what...
...clock Friday morning, 2,000 competitors will assemble before the gates of the Kulm Hotel, march three by three to the stadium and there in chorus repeat the Olympic oath: "We swear we come to the Olympic games . . . in a chivalrous spirit for the honor of our countries and the glory of sport...
...city steeped in tradition and superstition. Ghosts as well as whores and gamblers haunted its streets and houses. The ghosts still do. New Orleanians swear that two waxen-faced Yankee soldiers parade through the corridors of a building on Constance Street, singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Dr. Deschamps, the dentist, hanged in the 1850s for murdering a girl he was trying to hypnotize, still haunts an apartment in 714 St. Peter Street. The Devil's own head hung on a gable in a house on St. Charles Avenue until gable and house were torn down...
...thought of walking up the aisle." However, Elizabeth's sister Margaret, undaunted, confided that she herself means to be married before long. Palace spokesmen were quick to deny all rumors. But after an engagement party at Giro's last week, one sharp-eyed newsman was ready to swear he had seen Princess Margaret and Philip's first cousin, the 28-year-old Marquess of Milford Haven, holding hands under the table...
Instead of making Liebling swear off the press, this mistrust made him a constant and critical newspaper reader. As he says: "When one cannot get the truth from any one paper (and I do not say that it is an easy thing, even with the best will in the world, for any one paper to tell all the truth), it is valuable to read two with opposite policies to get an idea of what is really happening." It also provides him with copy for a witty-and sometimes windy-department in the New Yorker called "The Wayward Press," a running...