Word: vouch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vouch for the quality of the receipes; they may all be world-beaters. But we haven't tried them, holding the not unnatural prejudice of a sensible drinker against the vast majority of fancy, fruity, and fribbety belly-washes...
Almost a melodrama, but good at that We saw this in London last summer and can't vouch for the New York cast. The play at any rate provides a good evening's entertainment...
Despite the fact that the CRIMSON can not make itself responsible for communications appearing in its columns, it may be said to vouch at least for the taste of such items, and the good taste of running criticisms of the English 72 examination has been questioned...
...Harvard-Princeton football game Bill Roper got his Princeton squad together and read them the discourteous strictures on their university in the Lampoon. This, it is supposed, is what gave the Tigers the extra allowance of fury that enabled them to trounce Harvard 12-0. We can't vouch for the accuracy of the story, or for the alleged consequences, if the story is true, but you may remember that virtually all the penalties in the game--for holding, for off-side play, etc., etc.--were imposed on Princeton...
...TIME, March 29, p. 10. Unless some transformation has taken place since coming to Washington, I think the gentleman would quite readily and naturally answer to the name, if pronounced Qua'-le. I have known him for so many years, boy and man, that I think I can vouch for the accuracy of this...