Word: vow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blackface makeup and white-rimmed spectacles. He accentuates his lines with eye-googling and eccentric prancing. When he wrote his first book a year and a half ago (My Life Is in Your Hands, autobiography), he required the aid of a ghostwriter, one David Freedman. Publishers Simon & Schuster vow that his latest book, Caught Short, about the stockmarket, was written by the author in person one rainy Sunday afternoon (TIME...
According to the bogus oath, candidates were said to vow merciless war against heretics, Protestants, Masons. On the Sunday following his indictment Bateman. at the request of the board of trustees, tendered his resignation as pastor...
Politically, he is an independent Republican, at least nationally. But he has made a vow not to support Nominee Hoover unless he declares for modification of the Volstead Act. Prohibition is his chief antipathy. He could not possibly dislike any human being so much...
...American Association of Engineers recently prepared and adopted an oath for the engineering profession entitled "The Engineer's Vow of Service." This is the only oath written thus far for the engineer. Because we believe that you will be interested in the Vow we are enclosing copy with this letter. We shall be pleased to receive your comments...
...Farrar herself has taken turns in the cinema, won much praise for her Carmen, Maria Rosa, The Woman God Forgot, The Devil's Stone, The Turn of the Wheel, The Hell Cat, Shadows, The Stronger Vow, Joan the Woman, and The Riddle Woman...