Word: swore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inspector Collins denied that he had threatened, admitted that he had called Miss Savidge "Irene," said that she had asked for cigarets herself, swore that she had voluntarily stood up to show her pink petticoat, and denied asking Miss Savidge if she had ever...
Naturally Writer Sidney Sutherland was haled before his editors for questioning. He swore several jagged, journalistic oaths at men unaware of what they say during interviews; then explained what happened. His employers believed him. Then came a bright thought. His report would make a good story. He wrote...
Throughout Japan the Prime Minister's thunderbolt took such potent effect that in several instances angry crowds mobbed Ronoto speakers. None the less impartial observers lent a sympathetic ear to stalwart, forthright Ikuo Oyama, Leader of the Ronoto. He swore that its members are not Communists but the unfortunate victims of a Government scheme to intimidate the Opposition...
...anxious before the sphinx of Destiny until the day when the Imperial Governments of Austria and Germany, drunk with pride, loosed on their peoples and ours that catastrophe which until the last minute we strove to avoid. . . . On that day of days we were free again, and we swore never to lay down our arms before we had assured the double deliverance of Alsace and Lorraine...
...Crescent Mine, near California, Pa., picketers jeered and swore as usual at "scab" workers (mostly Negroes) filing in for another day's work. The Pittsburgh Coal Co.'s strong-arm men* jostled the picketers, bade them begone. A striker fired a shotgun. Two strong-armers roared with pain. The crowd dissolved, growling with satisfaction. The week before it had been a striker's woman who was hurt?trampled by a police horse. . . . Next time the California picketers assembled they were dispersed by tear...