Word: swore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chapel, they had voted to discontinue their attendance at classes until their President, Dr. James Stanley Durkee, should give them some satisfaction for representations they had made to him in protest against compulsory physical and military drills† They demanded reinstatement of anti-militarists dismissed by Dr. Durkee, swore to "cut" their classes a beyond the allowable number of 20 as was necessary to "adjust their rights...
Before he was a year old, he had given his aunt the prettiest black eye, that woman swore, which she had ever received. In adolescence, he astonished the citizenry by setting a derailed horsecar back on its tracks. Yet his parents, until that day, had been sceptical of his abilities. "There's men in old Ireland could break you in two with a slap of their hand," his father, a wizened hod-carrier, had told him. His mother had intended him for the priesthood...
...East Longitude, and from the 77th parallel to the North Pole, lies a vast region never explored by man, a "blind spot" on the most modern of maps. In 1906, three years before he reached the Pole, Admiral Peary stood on a cape of Ellesmere Land, looked northwest, swore he could discern, about 120 miles off, the peaks and promontories of what has since been called Crocker Land. In 1914, Peary's old lieutenant, Explorer MacMillan, struck out from Axel Heiberg Land over the floes for 150 miles-and found nothing. On the way, however, and again back...
...believe: A Dortmund drayman lost an action in a law court. He was very angry, named his two donkeys after his two lawyers, painted their names on the animals' blinders, drove through the streets of Dortmund. The sensitive lawyers sued for defamation of character. The drayman swore that he meant no harm. The Judge asked: "If you had a third donkey, what would you name him?" The drayman retorted: "That's no business of the fourth." Thirty days in jail was the Judge's kick...
...sculptures. Said he: "The man they wanted to finish my work is a carpenter, not a sculptor. He would be unable to do a decent line of work." Meanwhile, talk went on in Atlanta that he would be extradited from North Carolina. To effect this, the Memorial Association swore out a new warrant, charging simple larceny and larceny from the house (the latter, under the Georgia law, an extraditable offense...