Word: swore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of the subjects just swore, loud and long...
...Dartmouth quarterback, a hard-hitting blocker trained at Dean Academy by Coach Daniel ("Dirty Dan") Sullivan. Last year Heavenly Gates played on the Dartmouth team all season. Last September, Gates, a senior, did not show up for practice. Football, he told his friends, was commercialized, godless; the players swore too much...
...Liner American Banker by soaking their blankets in gasoline and setting them afire, then signaling for help with a flashlight. Carried to London and back to the U. S. by the rescuer, Captain Milton and crew were grimly resentful toward the ship that passed them by. Swore Milton: "If I'd had a rifle I'd have taken a shot at them...
...sail skipper, gave credit where credit seemed due-to the balmy weather and to St. Christopher, patron saint of travelers. No Roman Catholic, but a stanch Covenanter, Commodore Irving totes two St. Christophers, one a statue given him by a Galway pilot, the other a medal from a passenger. Swore he: "I spun that medal around and said, 'Well, St. Chris, what about it?' He said, 'Go to it.' " Next day sheepish operators and tug hands came to a hasty agreement. Said chagrined Tsar Ryan: "St. Christopher ought to be made to join the union...
...swore that if she possibly could she would appear at the Ball tomorrow night in spite of the tailoring and pruning and late rehearsals that accompany the opening of a big musical comedy. She also said she would sing some of the songs which are rumored to be titillating the auricular appendages of Beacon Hill audiences...