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Texas consented 5-to-3 to kill a clause from its 1876 Constitution requiring Governors and other State officeholders to swear they have never fought a duel...
Almost certainly Hitler and Göring think air power will soon have made sea power obsolete, but they know the British Admiralty is full of crusty heroes ready to swear that "By gad, Sir, none of your dashed bombers has ever sunk a modern capital ship and they haven't taken Madrid. The Navy is still the Navy, Sir, and England is still England." In that atmosphere, which seems very favorable to modern Germans, an air pact conceivably may be signed. Its drafters will have to take into consideration first the quantitative air strengths of the great powers...
...scientific farm-loan appraisals, having made a revolutionary study of mortgage history of farms of different soil types. Only 37, he is wiry, energetic, given to pounding his hands together and cussing. Says he: "Between my father's mules and prehistoric gasoline engines I learned to swear early...
...Pettee, strokes the pretty hair of Carol Gillman, an impetuous divorcee. The others discuss tactics. A gang of local "antis" come in, carry out the committee's two leaders, take them to a dark swamp, thrash them unconscious. Then they turn lights and police on their victims. "I swear!" they say. "They have been beating each other up. . . . Goddamn. They want to get us into trouble." The liberals leave Chew still bloody and uninvestigated...
...Frank set the standard," concluded his author, "that I understand all true Yale men to this day have lived up to--not to drink, not to smoke, and never to swear...