Word: swore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcements are quite all right. It's the courses that are missing." The Senior swore feelingly, for he was in the department of English, poor fellow, and the matter touched him closely. But the youth had not been listening; he was thumbing his pamphlet...
...many accidents, was 30 aging. Friends bought Peter Manning, presented him to Geers, begged him to drive exhibitions only. Spirited, Geers could not refrain. He seldom whipped a horse, never raised his voice. He sat his seat immovable, hunched forward. Called "The Silent Man from Tennessee," Geers never swore. Neither did he drink alcoholics. His passions were cigars, clean sportsmanship, straightforwardness, philanthropy and ice-cream. A millionaire at his death, he died as he would have liked to-in a hot race. At Brooklands, England, another racing figure was killed in action. Scorching down the famed speed saucer...
John Smith, owner of the garage, later swore out warrants and had the sheriff and two of his surviving deputies arrested charged with causing the fight, thirty-two other warrants for murder were also sworn...
Then the Brazilian censor swore he had found a leak. He arrested Charles M. Kinsolving, manager of the United Press in Brazil, charged him with "defiance." The American Chargé d'Affaires remonstrated, Kinsolving was freed...
...They're all 'out for' something or 'on' something. One was out for hockey, another was on the 'Dean's List', another on 'probation', and a profane young man swore he was on the skids...