Word: swearing
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...Paris last week was Count Charles de Chambrun, retired French Ambassador to Rome recovering from a pistol shot in the groin, fired by sultry Madeleine de Fontanges who accused him of breaking up her romance with Benito Mussolini (TIME, March 29 et seq.). Cried the Count: "I swear I never in my life occupied myself with Mme de Fontanges' personal affairs...
...British residents of Southwest Africa are in future to be barred from all public offices in the mandate unless special permission has been obtained. 2) Non-Britons may not address public meetings, vote, or otherwise influence public bodies. 3) British subjects in Southwest Africa who swear allegiance to any head of a state or government other than that of George VI are liable to ?100 ($500) fine, a year's imprisonment or both...
...Joyce's Ulysses, but if so he will go down fighting. Ever since the publication of James Joyce's big book (1922), legends of Dr. Gogarty's near-mythical person have been stealing round the world like a slow smile. His many friends in Dublin could swear he was flesh-&-blood, but it was not till this week that the struggle for existence between the live doctor and the fictitious medical student began to look like a fair fight. Gogarty had published in the U. S. two books of verse (Wild Apples and Selected Poems; TIME...
...much opposed to the spirit of the Bill as to the "invidious distinction" which requires only teachers to take the Oath, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, declared that even garbage men should be made to swear the Oath. "I think it's a good thing to have a good deal more swearing than we have now," he maintained satirically, quoting from the Massachusetts Constitution the section requiring that all public officers adhere to the principles of "piety, moderation, temperance, industry, and frugality...
...legislators would swear to this section," Professor Holcombe continued, "I'd take the Oath twice a day--on getting up and on going...