Word: swore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back to jail went Ben Bess, South Carolina's most conspicuous contemporary Negro. Ben Bess first went to jail for a 30-year term in 1915, on the testimony of a white-trash woman named Maude Collins who swore he had raped her. Last spring Ben Bess was pardoned by Governor Richards after Maude Collins had signed an affidavit saying her original testimony was false (TIME, June...
When Zogu, a Mohammedan, took his coronation oath, he swore on both a Koran and a Bible. Observers saw in this an indication that he had not given up his reported desire to marry the Princess Giovanna of Italy. Signer Benito Mussolini is reported to desire the union. But King Vittorio Emanuele, Princess Giovanna's Roman Catholic father, objects...
...this crucial point several of the patriarchs in pants positively refused to be shaved. They pointed out that the Koran enjoins all Moslems to go bearded and turbaned, like the True Prophet. Enough to have transgressed the first of these commandments! By the Beard of the Prophet they swore they would not be shaved...
...that the defendant was not in Georgia after February, 1926. Governor Smith started to gather up the papers on the case as though satisfied with the alibi. The U. S. Postal Inspector who had arrested Saunders, passed a letter to the Governor. The latter eyed it, eyed Saunders sharply, swore him, assured him that perjury was as serious in New York as swindling in Georgia, showed him the letter...
...profession, and she did excel at it, so the gods had to interfere and deposit her in the domesticating arms of her lover, soon husband and five times father. Bromide, he had said "No woman ever made anything more beautiful than a complete and perfect baby," but Arachne swore she preferred making the complete and perfect web of brilliant silks. Athene promised to teach her, and repented when the pupil surpassed her instructress in talent and conception-dangerous impertinence. Her prosaic lover defined romance as "uncomfortable and dangerous things happening to someone else," but Arachne's malapert masterpiece...