Word: swore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long as they swore by the book, producers of Gone With the Wind were free to make as great a picture as they could, and the film has almost every thing the book has in the way of spectacle, drama, practically endless story and the means to make them bigger and better...
...Polish oath they swore...
Instead of getting the order, "Firm B" was told by a Government official, "you are 50% too cheap!", the specifications were slightly altered, and "Firm B" then bid ?148 ($592), but the order finally went to "Firm A" at ?180 ($720). To newshawks Gadfly Stokes swore that he was in the room when "Firm B" received the alleged telephone call, hinted that he believed "Firm A" is a Nuffield subsidiary. In the House of Commons he shouted: "I'd like to wring the necks of the armaments firms in the ring...
Last week she shocked San Francisco by losing her chemise: filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, swore her assets were $8,067, liabilities $64,631. Trouble was, she said, that her gross was big and her net was little. As an example she offered her 1937 earnings statement: gross...
...dozen-and-a-half Senators gathered in the office of liberal, hell-roaring Isolationist Hiram Johnson of California, counseled there almost daily, swore to keep the U. S. out of that "entangling alliance." Last week, in the same room, around the same Hiram Johnson (but now conservative and weak-voiced) another dozen-and-a-half gathered, pledged themselves to U. S. isolation and to defense of the arms embargo...