Word: swears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the flags fly; as they did Monday for the first time since March, over the two boxlike wings of the high domed Capitol, the people of the U. S. are given to understand their will is being done. Do congressmen understand it that way? They swear they do. But such is the dignity of congressional membership, especially in the Senate, that the popu- lar "you may" is almost inevitably superseded by the congressional...
...accuse that man of being an agent of Moscow. I swear it a thousand times!" roared another witness for the prosecution, pointing an accusatory forefinger at M. Schwartzbard...
...then most of the performances are adequate; with the exception of Mlle. Andree Rolane in the part of the child Cosette (you would swear that the youthful actress couldn't be more than ten years old) few of the cast could be called exceptional. On the other hand the general standard is high, and the performances of M. Gabriel Gabrio as Jean Valjean, of M. Jean Goulont as Jawert, and of M. Saillard as Thenardier are thoroughly, convineing...
...SWEAR UPON MY HONOR...
This was "mental reservation" with a vengeance; and persons ignorant of Irish politics may well have asked: "Why did men who have steadfastly and courageously refused to swear an oath for five years decide to swear it in such ignoble fashion now?" A sufficient answer is that early last week the Free State Government headed by President William Thomas Cosgrave jammed through Parliament the Public Safety Bill under which the seats of deputies who do not take the oath may be declared vacant and a by-election ordered to fill them?no candidate being allowed to run unless he pledges...