Word: swears
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...appearance on the witness stand. Secretary Johnson had testified that he himself prepared his employer's 1931 tax return, that, in the confusion of his departure for London as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Mr. Mellon barely glanced at it, did not swear to it. But Counsel Hogan announced that when he took the stand Mr. Mellon would assume full responsibility for the return...
...charge her with being as cold as a cold fish to her spouse. Because of her there is no heir to the Izmailov name. The puling Zinovi is called hurriedly to repair a break in a far-away milldam. Before he leaves Katerina has to bow low before him, swear to be faithful in his absence...
...Nurse Gow and Mrs. Lindbergh paraded the fact to any kidnapper lurking in the neighborhood that the child was in the house, at the same time giving the snatcher a good notion of the nursery's location. The prosecution plans to bring witnesses to the stand who will swear they saw Hauptmann lurking in the neighborhood...
Prosecution's witnesses will be many. First on the list is Col. Lindbergh. He will swear that he recognized the voice of Hauptmann as the one which called "Hey, doctor, over here, doctor!" the night that he and Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon passed the $50,000 ransom over a Bronx cemetery wall in a vain attempt to get the baby back. About all Nurse Gow can say is that she did not see the kidnapper. Joseph Perrone, a New York taxicab driver, will identify Hauptmann as the man who gave him a dollar to take the message...
...million, began delivering lectures about Mr. Will Shakespeare's plays." And though he cannot cast more than a flickering light on the puzzling questions he cheerfully mopes over, there is sometimes a reassuring enthusiasm in his incoherence: "You have to be an American to understand the Americans. I swear...