Word: swears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finger twitches testified he had seen the four attackers carry Franklin toward a big log fire. The State, contending that Franklin was burned alive, exhibited as the corpus delicti a boxful of charred bones. Because a temple bone had inadvertently been mislaid a State health officer would not swear that the remains were human. The live "Connie Franklin" said that on the night of the "murder" he had started out with Tiller. He explained: "I fell off my mule-had a few too many swigs-and cut my haid. Next day I went away. That's all they...
Three years ago, jauntily riding home from a successful business trip, Seņor Fimbres found his hacienda ransacked, his wife lying horribly mutilated on her bed. "Apaches . . . Apaches . . ." she whispered before she died. "They took our son. Swear to get him back! Avenge...
Hidalgoans do not smile in the sun. They swear audibly, extensively and persistently and R. B. Creager and the Texas Tammany boys (A. Y. Baker et al) are the subject of their most virulent profanity...
...phrase could be gauged from the rage of Mrs. Chen, who called on Editor Chan to be rate him; and from the actions, a day or so later, of eight stalwart Chinamen who visited Editor Chan's office and overturned typewriters, upset tables, smashed chairs, moved Editor Chan to swear out a war rant for Mrs. Chen's arrest...
...civilization. Dean asked U. S. Negroes to send builders, educators. News came that all the other African Kings were gathered at Cape Town to do homage to the Prince of Wales, present King of England. Dean went there, organized a private reception for the Kings. He got them to swear friendship, fealty, each to each, in a dozen dialects. Not only, however, did no help come from the U. S., but one night, soon after the reception, the warehouse containing Dean's whole fortune in ostrich feathers mysteriously burnt down. The feathers had not been insured. Dean...