Word: swore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night impressionable Erica went home to her flat and fell into a troubled sleep. At midnight, she awoke to hear her pet cat screaming. Standing in her bathroom, she swore next morning, was a tall figure wearing the polterjacket. As Erica cried out in terror, the figure turned slowly to reveal the hideous face of an old crone. "I stared it away," reported Erica bravely. "It came up and then faded away like a television image...
...some of them Dodger fans who said they had no love for Leo but felt that every man deserved a fairer deal than feckless Happy Chandler had dished out. Among the 100 affidavits collected for the defense of The Lip was one from George Cronk, a railroad fireman who swore that he, not Durocher, had accidentally tripped over Boysen and kicked...
...that time Dent allegedly shock his fist at Munro, and vowed, or swore, revenge come spring and lacrosse...
...workmen was carried over the loudspeaker. "It's caving to beat the band," said the voice below. Timbers went down for shoring. The men worked on, regardless of danger, or bone-deep fatigue. Little O. A. Kelly leaned back wearily when he was pulled to the surface, and swore: "I'm going in there and I'm coming out with that little girl in my arms...
...hard that speeches by McCarthy, Texas' Governor Beauford Jester and Cinemactors Pat O'Brien and Leo Carrillo had to be put off until midnight. Rival Houston Hotelman Jesse Jones sat it all out quietly. Dorothy Lamour tried to sing in the Emerald Room, but carefree customers swore into the microphone ("Where the hell's my seat?"), and NBC cut Dottie off the air. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, sniffing through the hotel, found its long green corridors "depressing," concluded that it was a "tragic . . . imitation [of] Rockefeller Center out here on the prairie . . . There should be written...