Word: vow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chiefly concerned the adventures of Salathiel Al-bine, who was kidnapped and brought up by the Indians, grew into a 6 ft. 4 in. paleface with muscles like "fluid oak wood." Salathiel reappears in Bedford Village as one of seven frontiersmen who help Captain Jack Fenwick carry out his vow to exterminate the Indians...
...asylum. They also knew that Charles had once been confined there himself, when family worries caused a temporary loss of his mind. The year after he was discharged, Mary suddenly seized a kitchen knife, wounded her imbecile father and stabbed her mother through the heart. Thereafter Charles made a vow never to leave his sister. Unmarried, devoted, they lived together for 35 years (1799-1834). Author Howe's touching study centers around the eccentric, fascinating household of this most curious pair in English literature...
...years Enrico Caruso carried on a feud against his native Naples. In 1901, after his early European successes, the Neapolitans hissed him. Caruso vowed he would never sing in Naples again, would visit his home only "to eat a plate of spaghetti." He kept his vow. During World War I he was begged to sing at Naples' San Carlo opera house for a Red Cross benefit. Caruso wrote a check for 50,000 lire, but refused to sing...
...Work, No Woo. "Vow Girls," 350 female employes in the yard, have signed a pledge not to date any Albina man who has not perfect job attendance for the week...
...Supreme Court ordering all States to recognize Nevada's easy divorces (TIME, Jan. 4). Issued by Benedictine Monk Edgar Schmiedeler, director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference's Family Life Bureau, the Church's statement hewed to the customary Catholic line that marriage is a vow taken before God and not to be set aside by courts...