Word: swore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crowd drowned him out with laughter. On the floor below he swore in some 30 members of his Administration and shook hands, grinning, for several hours. Finally he drove away to stop at an undertaker's to pay his respects at the bier of a friend's mother before going to his New Year's dinner...
...follow leader George into a situation which might restore him to all his old prestige if the panacea "worked"; and might brand the Liberal Party as a parcel of radicals if the measure failed either in Parliament or later. As always the wily George threatened and yielded adroitly. He swore that he would resign from the party and go "out into the wilderness." He cajoled his old follower, Sir Alfred Mond, a bitter foe of land nationalization. At length he yielded, just soon enough to secure notable concessions as a reward for not carrying out his threat to split...
...froths over. And yet, by some strange madness in his playing he gave his technical vagaries the air of having been written for him by Wagner; he tumbled a sunset thunder-mountain into the fustian stalls of Carnegie Hall; he rocked the hearts of shriveled critics so that they swore no one who ever lived had an equal magic in his finger tips. He was Ignace Jan Paderewski...
...great seas in succession struck the tottering vessel; she shivered, climbed a wave, and jerked to starboard with a lurch that spilled the gathering in the salon out of their seats. Ladies and gentlemen writhed in one another's arms, clawed at one another's clothing, groped, swore, sputtered, struggled for a foothold-and all the while the fainting nuances of the world's greatest pianist floated out over their bedlam. Paderewski had heard nothing, felt nothing. Absorbed in his music, he played...
...Majesty the Emperor and King entrusted to me, to dedicate this memorial to the Guard Regiment of the Empress Augusta Victoria. . . . The chief duty for us all is the fulfillment of our duty and loyalty to the articles of war and the oath to the flag which we swore to His Majesty...