Word: swore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonder if the Glendale, Calif, sky pilot has ever read Paul Leicester Ford's The True George Washington. Ford tells us that on provocation George Washington "swore like an angel." When do ministers swear, if ever? I suppose, in the privacy of their own homes, to the dog, the wife and the kids...
...Sucker. In Salt Lake City, Sally McClurg, 11, lugged 1,875 pennies to school to buy a War Bond, confessed she had saved her pennies day by day since May 1943 when she swore off lollipops...
Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, briefly in Manhattan after months overseas, turned up in a Broadway night scene. Max Huddle, 30, dance-hall manager, ex-bouncer, 4-Fer, was holding his own against four soldiers who had tried to take his taxi, when, he swore, another taxi drew up and Colonel Roosevelt stepped out, stopped the fight, told everyone to "scram." Huddle, bruised and breathing hard, filed a complaint with the Army Provost Marshal against the G.I.s, called Roosevelt a "taxi-commando, [who] acted like he was God Almighty...
...Exile. He was also to give the Government their agreements about the division of administrative posts in the underground Government. Each of the four parties gave Karski its confidential plans and programs to memorize, so he could give them to each party's representative in Paris. He swore he would not divulge any party's secrets to another, or use his knowledge politically, or to advance his career...
...Elsa once observed, "the sincerity in the anxious eyes of all the little American women who are trying to be useful to their country." Elsa, not little but conspicuously American, considers her parties, like her "Line," an important contribution to the nation's morale. She once swore she would never do a column, because she hates gossip and abhors café society ("The only society I recognize is that of intellect and talent"). Only because "people needed to laugh more" did she yield in 1941 when Paul Winkler of Press Alliance syndicate offered her 40% of the gross proceeds...