Word: swore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passing resolutions unqualifiedly condemning the Wuhan clique, directing that Li be kept in jail, and entrusting the fullest military authority to President Chiang. Since the wily president had unquestionably "packed" the congress, its actions surprised no one. In Canton yet another military clique, composed of colleagues of General Li, swore vengeance on account of his execution or imprisonment-without knowing which had occurred-moved to join the Wuhan revolt. As Marshal Chiang and his army bore southward upon the rebel areas, the Cantonese colleagues of General Li forgot their indignation and made a neat right-about, in the famed manner...
...dais a thin blond man in a choker collar made a loud rapid speech and a short dark man swore to be a good Vice-President. After a tremendous throat-clearing a minister prayed and the short dark man read a speech from a little leather notebook. Mr. Coolidge listened with one hand up to his face. When the speech was over everybody clapped and helter-skeltered out of doors to the front steps of the Capitol...
...Chief Justice began the Presidential oath-he knew it well; he swore it once himself. "You, Herbert Hoover, you do solemnly swear that you will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will, to the best of your ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States...
...Prussia was an aggressive individual called Bismarck who drank much champagne, smoked many cigars, and swore loudly that Germany had a future...
...from one Genoa hotel rushed to Jack in another Genoa hotel. Frith-Walter congratulated her on influencing her husband to renounce Labor, secretly regretted that his son should abandon political ideals-indecent though they were!51;out of mere passion for a woman. But Pearl cast herself upon Jack, swore it should never be said he had given up his political career for a woman, announced that they were immediately returning to England to stand for Parliament-Labor...