Word: swearing
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...could not find further inspiration to fill out the final four inches of the column. Fumbling nervously around the presses I was thrown into violent contact with this appropriate block-head "On the Rack." The odds are three to one that you have never seen this before but I swear on my word of honor it is supposed to be a regular column of the CRIMSON...
Harvest, her 21st translated book, is little more than a literary scrap-book- Swedish and Biblical legends, reminiscences, travel sketches, reprinted speeches. And the book is not an anthology of brilliant blossoms; epigrammarians will find slim pickings here. But for stout-hearted oldsters who still swear by convention, old fashions, common sense and straight talk, Harvest will be a comfort and a quotable aid. Author Lagerlöf, like all her contemporaries, has been through the mill; unlike most of them, her final comment transcends platitude: "Thanks and praise be to God that the hard truth came wrapped in happy...
...wonders to fall on this Day of Days, surely the most wonderful will be the realization on the part of the American people that all their problems cannot be solved by legislation, and that to make a man swear allegiance to a flag, whether or no it be that of his birth, is tantamount in folly to betting on Oxford in the Oxford-Cambridge crew race. University and school teachers, whenever they gather in secret, must drink toasts to Der Tag that is dear to their hearts--when the American Legion will have been deafened by the noise...
Most sensational Davey riposte was to swear out a warrant charging Harry Hopkins with criminal libel, which he followed up with a 700-word telegram to the Administrator...
...area of Greece, deposed its Kings and given it a place in world politics far out of proportion to its real importance: "All my life with all my heart I wanted the union of Crete and Greece. I wanted it to be sustained by profound mutual affection. I swear that was my only desire. . . . Greece will never see me again...