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...cautious, rather wry myth. He had proved himself safe. He suffered himself to be photographed pitching hay for the 1924 campaign and on March 4, 1925, the people let him put his hand on the Bible from which he had learned to read at the age of four, and swear to "Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States...
TIME is terse; it might do poorer, But it harbors a certain addiction: Quotations that swear and letters in poetry, Are items it uses without restraint...
...least 60 of his 84 acknowledged children live in and round the town. He is the original bachelor father, as you may or may not know. AND the Reigning Favorita lives here, just a block from the Royal Residence. All the American population of Maracay (we are seven) swear by TIME, but we cannot bear to have our fair city slighted. It's a grand town, we have a sewer and everything...
...Citizens-I do not wish war. But if war must come, I swear to march to the front myself...
...Vagabond is afflicted with a conscience that every year has sent him rushing back to stores on December twenty-fourth and a half to exchange Cousin Ned's pipe for a cocktail shaker on receipt of the news that Aunt Alice is going to try having him swear off on smoking instead of drinking this New Year. This time he has been more provident, however, and was careful to select a store that made a conspicuous display of its "No Credits or Exchanges" sign that was reassuring in its finality. For once he is prepared to enjoy the days preceding...