Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jackson, the well-known pugilist." But when Hours was pooh-poohed by the Edinburgh Review, his lordship flew into an ungentlemanly frenzy, swore "to punish them for it." He did so, in the satirical poem English Bards and Scotch Reviewers -the first intimation to Britons that there had risen among them a satirist with a skinning knife sharper than any since Alexander Pope...
Testified his ex-secretary, Mrs. Evelyn Runge: "Mr. Lamb said that while in Russia [in 1936, as a tourist-writer], he attended a Communist school . . . when Earl Browder was there." Lamb pooh-poohs the assertion. A Toledo cement finisher swore that he saw Lamb give money to Lincoln House (the city's Communist headquarters) at its dedication...
Faxon told the School Committee that he had not belonged to the Communist Party since 1951, when membership became illegal in the Commonwealth. He asserted that he had never violated the Constitutions of the United States or Massachusetts, which he swore to uphold when he took the teachers' oath...
This time the hearing was formal, Rutman was sworn, and his testimony recorded by stenographers. He restated his earlier answers, then swore that he was not presently a member of the party or of any affiliated group, and repeated his reasons for joining and leaving Communism. Reiterating that he knew of no present Communists at Jefferson Rutman again refused to give names. Approximately half of the five-hour hearing was devoted to the testimony of six character witnesses who asserted they believed Rutman to be a loyal citizen, and a person of honesty and integrity...
...industrial relations (he was co-founder and-for 1½years-dean of the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell). Offstage he was a convivial Young Turk who enlivened one party convention by parading through a hotel overturning beds and occupants (in 1936 he swore off drinking). After 16 conscientious years in Albany (including terms as majority leader and Speaker of the Assembly), Ives decided to try national politics. In 1946, he ran against formidable ex-Governor Herbert Lehman for a seat in the U.S. Senate. The voters gave Lehman the licking of his life...