Word: swore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty laps in the pool. He was doing fifty this summer but it was a smaller pool. Eyes hurt in the sun, too much chlorine in the water. No cocktail before dinner, swore off two weeks ago and only had one since. Dinner in the Master' lodgings, the Master tall gray quiet man, professor in an antique tongue. Master's wife good company. Some talk about new parietal rules, plans for House dances. Back to the Attic a little after nine and an hour reading Kleist's "Prinz Friederich von Homburg" with text in one hand and Langenscheidts "Deutsch-Englisch...
...Charge of the Maine project, issued denials. Army officers declared that only no loaves of bread a day had been purchased at 'Quoddy in July, denied that any pie had ever been purchased, got an affidavit from William Doyle, 'Quoddy's garbage contractor, who solemnly swore: "At no time have I ever seen pie in the garbage or swill...
...narrow. At 15 his astonishing stenographic skill landed him a job in a St. Louis cotton firm. Soon he went to Manhattan as secretary to a cotton man named Lamar Fleming, father of his brilliant young partner. Will Clayton was a model youth. He never smoked, never drank, never swore-and does not to this day. He worked nights, sent money to his mother, put up with a miserable French boarding house in Manhattan to learn another language. Shortly before the company he worked for failed, he went west to Oklahoma City to set himself up as a cotton merchant...
Premier Santiago Casares Quiroga promptly suspended Parliament for eight days, and all the Monarchist Deputies swore never to return. Unwisely the Government refused to allow Calvo's body to lie in state anywhere, barred a mob of 30,000 Rightists from the cemetery where he was being buried. When the crowd gave the Fascist shout, "Up Spain!" Assault Guardsmen fired, killed five, wounded three. Forehanded, President Manuel Azaña ordered the Army and Civil Guards mobilized in quarters, ordered a roundup of Rightist leaders, jammed them into jails. Talkative Rightists had begun telling about a great Army revolt...
...many fighting words the Irish have bandied with other people and themselves, one of the most actionable was Parnell. At the height of his power the whole Irish nation swore by him, and in Gladstone's Parliament his power was so great that he was in a fair way to wrest Irish Home Rule from an unwilling England. Then the scandal of his liaison with pretty Kitty O'Shea ruined his political career, Ireland relapsed into its normal strife, and Home Rule was set back two generations. Margaret Leamy, relict of one of Charles Stewart Parnell...