Word: swears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vatican heard without comment that drops of red liquid flowed from the eyes of an obscure "Virgin and Child," a fresco on a building now being demolished, in Milan. Townswomen insist this was blood and was a sign of the Virgin's displeasure "at the men folk, who swear too much...
...solemnly swear that in all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of George W. English I will do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws, so help...
...Text: "I...do solemnly swear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the Irish Free State...and I will be faithful to H. M. King George V...in virtue of the common citizenship of Ireland with Great Britain and her adherence to and membership of the...British Commonwealth of Nations...
...dance, still less where he discovered the subtle secret of how women charm. One thing sure, he didn't learn it playing hockey on that team which administered such a satisfactory walloping to the gentlemen from Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth. As for Wilson, all the experts in such matters swear that he has improved his last year's performance about 100 per cent. Figures talk. On that basis, the figure he cuts as the ravishing Miss Dashwood is a monologue in itself...
...swear that if that man is not a mountebank, as Mencken contends (and I am afraid Mencken is wrong) he, at least, most assuredly, is an unpardonable crank, a sort of belated Don Quixote of new puritanism, who ultimately will discredit the highly responsible office he holds, in a highly modernized society...