Word: swears
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...been enjoyed by very few. But it has thrown the world of music into a Kilkenny cat fight. One cat camp maintains that Schönberg's music, like Einstein's theory, sounds queer because it is way over the average man's head; opponents swear that Schönberg is pulling everybody's leg, including his own, and that his miscalled music is a gibberish of wrong notes. Gibberish or no, Arnold Schönberg's music is fearfully difficult to play. The main difficulty is to get all of Schönberg...
...most French pictures at least the photography is beautiful. Here a high school movie puts it to shame: there are spots all over the screen, lighting effects are crudely overdone, and the focus is so often artily fuzzy that you squint, swear, and come out with sore eyes...
Many a signature was found to be an out-&-out forgery. In 21 States the Communist Party was either barred from the ballot or made no effort to get on. Arizona ruled that Communists were not qualified to hold office, on the ground that they could not swear to uphold the Constitution...
...spectacle of the last world war fitted me with horror. I came out of it with one conviction: we must at all costs avoid any renewal of such atrocities. . . . This is the vow I made, a solemn vow: "I swear I shall always do everything in my power to prevent the outbreak of another...
...heaven's name, what are things coming to? Does Mr. Willkie think he can swear his way into the White House...