Word: vowing
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...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...
...ever written to an editor. But inasmuch as I do not want to appear to say things behind your back that I would not say to your face and inasmuch as you have demanded it (TIME, July 12, LETTERS), I herewith make your life complete and break my solemn vow. First, anent footnotes, if you think they belong in the magazine, run 'em. ... If TIME succeeds as you want to run it, you prove that you are right: if it flops, then you are wrong and no breathless tagging in the wandering aimless footsteps of the public can save...
...natives refuse to admit that Pele, goddess of volcanoes, will take human life, although she may destroy human habitation. The legend says that, jilted by a mortal lover, she slew him and then was so mortified she made a vow never to do such a thing again. Herds of cattle that have climbed naturally to a knoll or ridge to escape lava, are said to have been "spared" by Pele, who sent her wrath around them. A man whose legs were clipped off by a hot boulder was said, after his demise, to have "stumbled into a crevice...