Word: swore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days, word came that a posse had got Jim Godwin. Hefty, heartbroken Lulu Belle wept again. That report was false, but after Bill Wilson lost his nerve, sneaked away and squealed, they did get Godwin, subdued him with a load of bird shot in the face. He still swore he had planned to come back for Lulu Belle and go straight -after he had robbed enough gas stations. Lulu Belle, out on $200 bail and hiding her fat red face at home, didn't believe him this time. She had found out he had a wife & child...
...Vagabond swore aloud as he suddenly discovered that he had written Albany, New York, in the space marked "College or Local Address...
...style strike had produced a crop of arrests, some old-style violence. Most notable: Picket Lulu Darling, somewhat mauled in a scuffle in front of Hale Bros., complained to police about the store owner's athletic young nephew, Prentis Cobb Hale, Jr., who swore in turn he had not hit the lady...
Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins' office raised his right hand and swore an oath of office read to him by Chief Clerk Samuel Gompers, son & namesake of the U. S. Labor movement's revered granddaddy.* Then Administrator Andrews held his first press conference and the U. S. Government was launched on anew activity...
...hounded into hounding impoverished clients. A Metropolitan agent in New York City, Benjamin Klein, testified that his district manager punished him for lagging sales by making him don a dunce cap inscribed, "I am lousy, I am a louse," required 456 assembled agents to boo him. Scores of others swore that similar stimulants were commonly used by the three companies, complained particularly that agents were penalized for unavoidable lapses in old policies, finally induced the New York and Massachusetts Legislatures to curb that practice...