Word: vow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Exhibition is not popular with a certain section of the public. John Galsworthy, famed author, and Henry W. Nevinson, international correspondent of The Manchester Guardian, loudly condemned it for its cruelty. Said the latter: "I think that everybody who agrees with our view of the rodeo should take a vow never to go near such a performance. We should appeal to the President of the Exposition, the Prince of Wales, to say he would never go to it and that would be sufficient in itself to stop...
...Beatty, Earl Haig, Earl of Ypres, Lord Southborough, Lord Chalmers, General Sir William Mackinnon, Sir George Buchanan, Viscount Esher, Sir Joseph Ridgeway, Lord Stamfordham) in plumed caps, wondrously colored robes, wearing massive gold chains and bejeweled stars, offered their swords to the Dean of West minster, and made the vow to "Love the King. Defend him and his right; defend maidens, widows and orphans in their rights. Suffer no extortion. Hold the order in as great honor as ever...
...knights taking a knightly vow...
...believe in one German God, one German people and to the German Kaiser pledge this festival as the awakening of racial renewal. We vow no rest until the Emperor's banner of black, white and red is again universally adopted in Germany...
...great preceptor, the University of Oregon, now presided over by one of your own disciples, would be enrolled among those who happily gather today to salute you. And the legend we would most reverently and cordially inscribe within the encircling wreath would be the vow that Rome once gave to her Augustus or her Constantine Vota...