Word: swore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always, his activity was accompanied by great public outcry. Millions of U.S. citizens considered him a putty-nosed Canute trying to hold back the tide of progress. The nation was full of editorial writers who swore they could see foam dribbling down his jowls and wanted him clapped forthwith into a strait jacket. There was a certain irony in this. Petrillo's carnivorous methods of "getting something for the boys" made him the natural foe of the canned-music business, but he was also part and product of it, as much a child of Edison and Marconi...
...Later, Mark swore off swearing, drinking and chewing but remained a heavy smoker. The December Atlantic printed for the first time the letter Mark wrote to Olivia ("Livy") Langdon three weeks before their marriage in 1870: "I ceased from profanity because Mrs. Fairbanks [a friend] desired it. I stopped drinking strong liquors because you desired it. I stopped drinking all other liquors because it seemed plain that you desired it. I did what I could to learn to leave my hands out of my pantaloon pockets and quit lolling at full length in easy chairs, because you desired it. There...
...blocked from election as county Democratic chairman by a faction led by one Lake Dunn and his nephews, King and Charles Dunn. A few nights later, on Etowah's main street, Burkett Ivins shot and killed his eighth man : ailing, limping, unarmed Charles Dunn. At his trial, Ivins swore that Dunn had threatened to beat his brains in and had rushed at him with a hunk of concrete in his upraised hands. A hung jury left Ivins free to go around as he always had-with a .45 automatic hitched to his belt...
...packed Rio's Avenida Rio Branco to cheer the return of an exile. After 17 years in foreign lands, white-goateed Washington Luiz Pereira de Souza was back in Brazil.* When Getulio Vargas drove him out of the presidency in 1930 and set up a dictatorship, Washington Luiz swore never to return until Brazil was securely and constitutionally democratic. He came back when he decided that his conditions had been...
...from the movies on a flop?" Otherwise: "Clifford Odets isn't writing because he can't. George Kaufman isn't getting any younger. ... Philip Barry never wrote anything that would draw me into a theater. The best thing Maxwell Anderson ever wrote was Ingrid Bergman." Swore Play-Producer Harris: "I hope I never have to produce another. The fun is gone." He said that he was 90 (he is 47)-"as old as Shaw. But I feel older...