Word: swore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feared and fearless chieftain, recently asked General Sarrail, High Commissioner of the Syrian Mandate, to remove an obnoxious tax collector. Not only did General Sarrail not remove the offending tax man, but he also declined to receive the delegation which El Atrash sent to him. Thereupon the latter swore that he would return with his trusty warriors...
...Eighty Club (of Asqutihian Liberals), Lord Oxford (former Premier H. H. Asquith) and ex-Premier George swore eternal peace. The Mr. Asquith said the Mr. George was a seer and a gladiator, possessed of unfailing sympathy for the common people. Mr. George referred to the "characteristic warm and generous tribute" of his chief. Apparently there is now no rift in the Liberal lute. Differences had arisen concerning the Party's leadership when Mr. Asquith was elevated to the peerage. As Lord Oxford, he retains the Liberal leadership...
...British Consul General delivered a solemn protest to the Chinese Government. Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain in London swore that all British would be defended by every means from violence. "One foreign life for every Chinese life," was the Chinese answer printed on posters and later one Gavin, British subject, was bumped on the head...
...store conversation; Scopes told Rappelyea that he was still using a Biology text book containing an explanation of the theory of evolution which had once been approved by state authorities and not yet recalled, though Tennessee's anti-evolution act had been the law for a month. Rappelyea swore out a warrant, "to test the law." But it turned out an infectious jest. Laws tending to infringe upon the freedom of mankind's intellectual liberty had been cropping up all over the country lately-an anti-parochial-and-private-school law in Oregon (TIME, Mar. 30, SUPREME COURT...
...Voline, First Secretary of the Bolshevik Embassy in Paris, do it or did he not? Bolshevik Ambassador Leonid Krassin swore he did not. French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand swore that if he did it again he must go (TIME, May 11, FRANCE). "It" was giving support to a Communist demonstration in Paris...