Word: swore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disquieting to see so clearly that historians and biographers are more and more becoming cultural book-keepers. When one contemplates a great man now, there is little thought of whether or not he swore, heartily and fell in love: one must deal with the questions: "What did he do for us? If he had not lived and behaved so, wherein would our life be different?" And such profit and loss statements have their absorbing interest, even if their appearance may be a sign that humanity sees the sheriff approaching to seal up the door...
...Pennock, as deliberate as a garbageman stood against Sherdel, vehement, in baggy trousers. For five innings Sherdel, famed for his delayed ball, pitched perfectly; his slow curves wound whitely up to the plate and winked out of sight into Catcher O'Farrell's glove while Yankee batsmen swore and pirouetted. But in the ninth inning Pinch Hitter Paschal smashed a single to centre scoring Gehrig, tying the score, 2 to 2. An extra inning gave the Yankees victory. Score: New York. 3; St. Louis...
...militant radical- hunter. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts found them guilty of the Braintree murders, sentenced them to death, despite numerous witnesses who said that they had bought eels and fish from Mr. Vanzetti in North Plymouth at the hour of the crime, despite the Italian consul at Boston who swore that Mr. Sacco had come to him to procure a passport to Italy on that April morning...
Lawyer Thompson's second item was a broadside against the U. S. Department of Justice. He linked the Sacco and Vanzetti case with the 1920 anti-Red drive of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, produced ex-Government agents who swore that conviction for murder was simply "one way of disposing of them," that there were files of evidence which the Department of Justice refused to reveal. Lawyer Thompson burst ihto flames...
...housework, father had got blue and grumpy. Mother had read an advertisement in the farm journal, got some big bottles and pretty soon been all right again. On the bottle it had said, "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." Nice tasting stuff, too. Lots of women swore...