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...night, and yet I know not why 'less it be from sleeping so far up in the air (I being on the top floor of the Chrysler Building) for I have heard tell of persons in skyscrapers getting sick from the swaying of the building; but I would not swear this was my case for also now I remember I did eat a lobster for dinner: Therefore up, and soon comes----and I to apologize for being caught breechless but he did not mind and took to telling me about a lecture he heard recently by an Harvard alumnus wherein...
...Anyone who has children or students under their care should be forced to take the Oath," asserted the 29-year-old legislator. "When I first became a member of the school committee in Medford six years ago, I was proud to swear to uphold the Constitution...
Speaking on civil liberties before a convocation sponsored by the Chicago Congregational Union last week, smart President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago bestowed his approval upon teachers' oath laws-provided parents, cinema stars and radio entertainers are also required to swear allegiance to the U. S. Constitution...
...from the mountains. When the uproar began to die down, German Skier Willi Bogner scrambled up the steps of a rostrum decked with fir boughs, raised his right arm in Olympic salute, touched the flag of the German delegation with his left hand and recited the Olympic oath: "We swear that we will take part in the Olympic Games in loyal competition, respecting the regulations which govern them and desirous of participating in them in the true spirit of sportsmanship for the honor of our country and for the glory of sport...
BEFORE THE BRAVE-Kenneth Patchen -Random House ($2). SWEAR BY THE NIGHT-Nathalia Crane -Random House ($1.50). Mere mention of poetry makes most men itch. Not until poetry the thing has been sent again & again to the critical laundry would most self-respecting readers wear it next to their skins. Modern poets have always raised a storm of apprehensive, defensive abuse. Wordsworth was condemned for his prosiness, Whitman for his barbaric yawp, Browning for his obscurity. But readers of 1936 think they have a better case against their poets than more ancient moderns did against theirs. Nervous readers, cornered...