Word: vowing
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...unconquerable championship of Hoover Dam has been so fierce that when an innocent cigaret company offered it a whole page advertisement tying up the great project with a happy mouth, but referring to it always as Boulder Dam, the Times accepted it like a shot and suspended its holy vow for that day. But it promptly returned to its own Republican nomenclature the following morning and recently it carried a cartoon showing Uncle Sam rather pitifully reminding the President again that the name is Hoover, not Boulder. The cartoonist, apparently a defeatist, depicted the President as oblivious of the request...
...keep the issue broad. Mayor LaGuardia angrily refused to reveal the aspiring German masseur's name. This antagonized reporters to the point of hinting there was no such masseur, caused excited Mr. Moss to vow, "On my word of honor as a gentleman and as a Commissioner, there is such...
...school, teach French and other polite subjects to good little Protestants as well as Catholic girls. Their order was founded in 1800 by Madeleine Sophie Barat, who was canonized by her Church in 1925. To qualify as a Madame, a girl of respectable parentage and unblemished reputation must take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, study and teach for five or six years, then undergo a second six-month period of probation, finally becomes a professed religious by taking a vow of stability which attaches the nun irrevocably to the Society and vice versa. The Madames wear black, with...
...newspaper with not one but 29 comics in a gaudy 16-page tabloid. Moreover, the entire news section was printed in tabloid to conform. It had taken a brash young salesman for United Feature Syndicate six months to change the White mind but now, reminded of his oldtime vow, Editor White was ready to say: "That was back when I believed in fairies. We might as well gather rosebuds while...
...hardened into a mannered manner that is more poetry than prose. And her narrative, never rapid, has turned more descriptive, more rhapsodic than ever Her people do a deal of "looken, thinken," but spend most of their time "talken." When Stoner Drake's second wife died, he solemnly vowed never to set foot on God's green earth again. And nobody even attempted to laugh him out of it. He continued to exercise omnipotence over his farm, had a lookout built for himself, kept his household on edge by blowing a horn when he wanted somebody to come...