Word: vows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...cawn-fed in Alabamy', and the Mason-Dixon line having always possessed for me the proportions of a veritable wall of China, I was prepared to be intensely critical, vibrantly sensitive, and susceptible to every influence brought to bear on me at Harvard. How faithfully I have fulfilled this vow remains to be seen...
...George Bernard Shaw was one of the first men I met in London. I forget how I encountered him... He used to drop in and talk of his brilliant future and vow he would achieve it .... He had just written Cashel Byron's Profession, the only book of his I have ever read, and that because he gave it to me, though once later I heard him read Candida at H. W. Massingham's, and that was enough for me .... Soon The Star was started. Shaw was made Art Critic. I suppose it was writing on art that...
...District of Columbia judge, last week, released the five dominant meat-packing concerns from their forced vow to divest themselves of and "forever disassociate" themselves from subsidiary lines of business. Had they not taken this vow in 1920, the then Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer, would probably have sued them for breach of the trust laws. Trust-busting having become so unfashionable (TIME, Feb. 23, BUSINESS), it seemed unlikely that Attorney General Sargent would execute his predecessor's threat...