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...Tarleton was born & raised in Manhattan but his family were impoverished Southern gentry. Kip watched his father drink up the profits of the family hotel, drink himself into his grave. Kip's mother made him swear never to touch a drop, and Kip was willing. Kip was always anxious to do the right thing. When he got a job as assistant superintendent of a big Long Island estate and found that his boss was taking a commission on purchases, he informed his employers, was snubbed for his pains. He met Maggie May (also Southern though not so impoverished...
...these circumstances, Italian Catholics who swear Fascist oaths and participate in pagan worship of the State are advised by the encyclical to do so with mental "reservations, such as 'safeguarding the laws of God and of the Church' or 'in accordance with the duties of a good Christian' with the firm proposal to declare also externally such a reservation if the need of it might arise...
...biology text-book which explained the theory of evolution and which the State had not recalled. Chemist Rappelyea was sure the law, if taken to court, could be reduced to an absurdity, pitched into oblivion. Teacher Scopes guessed it could, too. A bargain was struck: Chemist Rappelyea would swear out a warrant against his friend for violating the anti-evolution law and thus force a test of the question. Arm in arm they left the drugstore with a plan which was, in a few weeks, to develop into one of the most amazing trials in U. S. history (TIME...
...have been denied citizenship because they made reservations in their promise to bear arms for the United States Dr. MacIntosh "would not promise in advance to bear arms in defense of the United States unless he believed the war to be morally justified", while Miss Bland was willing to swear the oath of allegiance provided it carried the added interpolation "as far as my conscience as a Christian will allow...
...Corwin was in our Chicago office a short time back and gave a sample of an imitation dogfight he had perfected for use in a future "Thriller." I swear to you that half the tenants of the world's largest Merchandise Mart came running, fully intending to witness the fight. Fully six or seven dogs of various breeds, ages and sizes were closely distinguishable in his imitation...