Word: swearing
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...WEDNESDAY. Anyone would swear that Sandy Dennis was a child bride, except that in this blithehearted bedtime story she is the mistress of a busy tycoon...
Unknown even to Vladimir, Alexander joined a revolutionary movement called the People's Will, and at 20 was hanged for taking part in a plot that failed to assassinate the Czar. Young Vladimir vowed: "I'll make them pay for this! I swear I will!" Payment was to be long deferred...
...ghost has left him alone on the stage. As Marcellus and Horatio enter they come upon a Hamlet whose "wild and whirling words" are no more disordered than his mind. He rushes violently about the stage, his comrades trailing after him. When the voice from the cellerage cries "Swear," Burton breaks into an exultant cackle--almost a giggle--as he recognizes that supernatural forces are going to help him prevent the witnesses from talking. The familiarities Hamlet shouts toward the ghost seem to fit into the scheme of things...
...introduced Norman customs of jurisprudence to England, men called jurors reported on property owners to the king's tax collectors. The local Saxons never considered jury trials when it came to meting out criminal justice, but they gave a defendant the chance to find twelve men- who would swear that his oath was reliable. It was not until the 12th century that King Henry II sponsored the first juries in civil cases. If a verdict was upset on review, the original jurors were automatically considered guilty of perjury and fined or imprisoned. About 100 years later, accused criminals were...
...feel respect for, or fear of, the Rothschilds. Amschel became treasurer of the German Confederation, and Jakob the Austrian consul in Paris. Nathan's son Lionel was elected to the British House of Commons four times, but four times Parliament refused to seat him because he would not swear a Christian oath. Parliament finally gave in, and Lionel sat from...