Word: vowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must not be surprised. The horse has become a four-eyed beast. The opening of the Saratoga, N. Y. Races was momentarily interrupted by Edward R. Bradley. Mr. Bradley announced (and he did not want anyone to laugh about it) that four of his horses, Barosa, Benedict's Vow, Billy Burke and Beneficient, were wearing spectacles...
Content with vow and pledge alone...
...tense moment when Elihu Root ended. ... I made an inner vow, there and then, that if the Court should find a way to uphold that amendment, despite that argument, I would give such strength and time as were at my command to appeal to the American people to undo that wrecking of our Government...
...several of the 48 states, the reform-urgers might have crusaded against even more lenient laws. In five southern states, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi and Virginia, twelve-year-old girls may take the marriage vow with their parents' consent; in New Hampshire 13 years' experience of this world is considered sufficient for wedlock...
Priests and members of religious orders who have taken the vow of chastity, war-mutilated veterans, officers and non-commissioned officers in the army, and foreign males resident in Italy are exempt from the new tax on bachelors (TIME, Dec. 27) and so could look on with amused tolerance last week when the details of the tax were finally approved and promulgated by the Cabinet...