Word: swears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defense Eugenio Bassani pleaded: "I confess that I used the vulgar words these women have repeated in court, but I spoke in jest. By the Blessed Name of our Holy Mother, I swear that I spoke in jest...
...picture, Hell's Angels. They went away only partly pleased. They had seen incomparably the greatest air spectacle ever projected. They had seen this spectacle woven through a war story of tragedy and cowardice. Despite the vivid dialog of Joseph Moncure (The Wild Party) March who wrote swear words for the actors in defiance of cinema custom, the story seemed inexpert. It told of two British brothers flying against Germany. At the climax the brave brother shot the timid brother to keep him from telling British army secrets to the Germans. There was also a love story which ended...
...intoxicants for the past two months (TIME, Feb. 10 et seq.). One Eaton Lehcirt, undergraduate "Prohibitionist," of Columbia University, wrote him a rowdy, distraught letter in which he detailed a personal visit to Cordials & Beverages, and the purchase for $1.50 of a bottle of Spanish Port which "I would swear was as good as any I have bought in Spain." Threateningly, discourteously, Lehcirt asked President Hoover, in effect, what he proposed to do about this open law violation...
...anybody in Poland understands her quixotic Dictator, that somebody ought to be made Prime Minister, and last week Poles were hopeful that, with Jan at the head of the Cabinet table, Josef (who insists on playing that he is only War Minister) will not snort and swear so much, will vent less often his favorite expletive: "Parliament! A prostitute, gentlemen! Parliament is a prostitute!" (TIME, July...
...friends in the Senate let the opposition blow itself out. made no formal effort to defend him. Mr. Hughes was confirmed as the eleventh Chief Justice of the U. S. (The vote: 52 to 26.) He was ready to take his special oath which begins: "I do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons and do equal rights to the rich and to the poor...