Word: vow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wood to keep body and soul together under ordinary circumstances. But during the long and arduous season of training through which they must go to produce the play, the baying of the wolf grows louder and louder. In order to continue to give the play, in fulfillment of their vow made over three hundred years ago, they must resort to drastic measures. And so they are coming to the United States during next October...
...look for here before next fall, and it is not the sort of play to suffer much from hot weather. The fickle Mr. Cohan, who sometimes make us suspect that he is as good a publicity agent as he is actor, author and producer, has broken his vow of theatrical chastity again and honored Boston with his presence behind the footlights. His part in "The Tavern" is thoroughly charming; the play itself is as hearty and artistic a burlesque as one could desire...
...Cape Cod was so called," said Mr. Lincoln, "because of a vow by the discoverer of it that he would name the place with the name of the first fish he caught off its coasts. It's rather lucky for the inhabitants, by the way, that he didn't catch an eel." The first town settled was Eastham, and the first inhabitants came from the Plymouth settlement. But it is Mr. Lincoln's theory, based on deduction, that the settlers came by sea. For we are given to understand that our Pilgrim Fathers were men of commonsense and piety...