Word: swore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that there was a blue-book too many. the mysterious being could change its shape at will for never did he appear twice in the same form. Once a section man thought he recognized the features of a freshman who had been run over by a trolley car; another swore he saw a man who had been expelled last June. But they were never sure; and always the extra bluebook was unsigned...
...firmly believe, went to sleep. They were the most human-sounding beasts I have ever met! All the grunts, sighs, groans, wheezes, and measured snores of human sleep were reproduced in a generous but exact replica. One snored so persistently that one of our hobo companions woke, swore sleepily, and with a stick rapped the offender into startled wakefulness and silence. Perhaps some of your other subscribers have had similar first-hand experience...
...swearing in of President Chiang Kai-shek. Since religion has been utterly divorced from Nationalism, no Bible or other symbol of the supernatural was in evidence. The new Chief Executive simply bowed three times before a portrait of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen (founder of the Nationalist Party), swore to uphold Dr. Sun's famed Three Nationalist Principles, and finally invoked three times as a potent witness the spirit of SUN YATSEN. When President Chiang had thus sworn, he was followed in the same ritual by five lesser Presidents, each of whom will administer one of the five Yuans...
...Jamie. But "she was a black woman on a red ground ... a sight he should have seen last year, on his tour, not now, home in safe sunny England." Terrified, he ran off with Menella, fair-haired handmaiden in "rose linen sprigged with small corn flowers and carnations." They swore to be true "till death us do part." Hariot's death, by her own jealous hand, did part them, and haunt them, till Jamie rode to his own frenzied death, and thus joined the siren he had jilted...
...insurgent conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony. In fact during a recent and extensive tour of the Far East he stood "literally hypnotized ... by music such as western ears had never heard, wildly discordant but with overtones of grandeur." Always eager to shock the music-lovers of Philadelphia, Leopold Stokowski swore that he would carry these aboriginal harmonies home with him to Pennsylvania...