Word: vows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tempted by these suggestions, tugged by a father's love, ex-King Alfonso rose eventually superior to temptation, was said to have voiced his "horror." Pious, he registered a vow to prevent the marriage of either of his daughters by every means within his power...
...meeting is held on Monday I shall be placed in a most embarrassing position," said he. "When I took the vow of silence I made only three exceptions: First, if I am in distress and can only be assisted by speaking. Second, if somebody else is in distress who can be helped by my speaking. Third, if exceptional circumstances prevail such as an unexpected call from the Viceroy or other high official who must be seen in the interest of the cause. Thus my appearance at the committee meeting on Monday can only come under the third exception, but only...
...much longer than I thought necessary. He came to see me on his weekly day of silence and therefore he wrote down all his questions, and such comments as what he thought of my tongue when I put it out at a gesture from him. I registered a mental vow that if ever a germ got down me again I would not let him know about...
President Strotz was chagrined when Madison Square Garden, with connivance from its Chicago allies, euchred him out of the Schmeling-Stribling world's title fistfight contract (TIME, Jan. 26). But he and his up-&-doing backers-who include his smiling, big stockbroking brother Harold-vow not soon again to be outsmarted by the Easterners. If their circus battle with John Ringling in Chicago goes over, they may carry that fight to other cities, may send a circus through the land some of the proceeds from which will find their way back to the lawns of Lake Forest...
Died. Edward Irving Edwards, 68, onetime (1920-23) Governor of New Jersey, once (1923-29) Senator; by his own hand with a revolver, having brooded alone for two days; in Jersey City, N. J. Famed for his vow that he would "make New Jersey as Wet as the Atlantic Ocean," his despondency arose from the death of his wife, from political failure, from financial losses and the realization that he had cancer of the nose...