Word: swearing
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...active medical practice I can say with utmost conviction that the specimen cases cited in the report which you quote are evidently children who have been poorly brought up, either by ignorant and indifferent parents or, more likely, by mothers who regard themselves as "progressive"-young ladies who swear by Freud and know all there is to know about inhibitions, complexes and the subconscious ego. Pity their poor children...
Habitués of the Cantina de los Médicos swear that a man once given up for dead by Lima doctors was brought to the cantina as a last resort. There the barman reached for la botella especial-the special bottle tucked away under the bar. After the bartender had dealt him a single snort, the dying man arose from his litter and walked away. He had drunk pisco ^from a rough, clear glass bottle in which was coiled, eyes open, a green garter snake...
Yale students have also complained that the dining hall employees are rude to them. Miss Bowers, in replying to this charge, asserted that the rudeness is not all on one side and that Yale men have been known to swear at the help. All is not sweetness and light, it seems, at the colleges in New Haven...
...Fraud!" cried Charles Witkowski, a candidate for city commissioner on one of the six opposition tickets. A 210-lb. former tackle at Villanova, Witkowski lunged for the box, grabbed it. "I drew it fairly," shouted Clerk Rosengard. "I swear on my family." Other candidates dived in, fought to get a hand on the box to see what made it tick...
Frances ("Peaches") Browning, who bloomed in the 1926 tabloids when, as a 15-year-old schoolgirl, she married 51-year-old Edward ("Daddy") Browning, decided to swear off. In California, she got her divorce from husband No. 4, had a ready answer for reporters who asked about a future marriage: "No-never, never again...