Word: swearing
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Racket & Revolver. Reverdy was a normally mischievous boy who learned to swear and smoke and pilfer, but his mother did her best to counteract the effects of poverty and slums by encouraging her son in the religious life. When he finally decided to become a minister after graduating from Wilberforce University, she was delighted. But his farmer father exclaimed: "You're a fool to spend your life going through the world making your living off the damned niggers...
Last fortnight, the Episcopate abruptly shifted its stand, authorized priests to accept state salaries, to swear loyalty to the Communist "people's democracy" and to pledge themselves not to do anything "against [the state's] interests, security or integrity." But later the bishops instructed the priests to take the oath with the qualification, ". . . Since I am convinced that the government would never ask anything which would be contrary to the laws of God or human rights...
...late Rachel Kollock McDowell, longtime (28 years) religious news editor of the New York Times, was known to her more irreverent colleagues as "the lady bishop." In the hope of making news men "swear off swearing," she founded the Pure Language League, tried to get fellow staffers to sign pledges against cussing. Even in death Miss McDowell carried on her good fight. Her will, probated last week, left about $3,000 to the New York Newspaper Guild (of which she was not a member) to perpetuate the Pure Language League by distributing pamphlets. Said the Guild's Executive Vice...
...Honest to God," he said afterward, "I hadn't the least idea of what was coming off. I snuggles down in the bushes and takes out my roscoe. I swear if one of them had got between me and the white steps, so's I could have a good target, I'd have let him have...
Fiddlesticks. In Brisbane, Australia, Minister for Transport J. E. Duggan announced the results of a survey: only 2% of Australian longshoremen swear, while 29.8% of Members of Parliament use cuss words...