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There the marriage oath I've taken...
...heavy-jowled man in the full dress of a Prime Minister turned to the Deputies and told them to sit down. They sat. Benito Mussolini read out in a fine commanding voice the oath of fidelity to the King and Constitution. He ended with: "I swear," and raised his right arm in the Fascist salute. Next he read out the names of the new Deputies in alphabetical order. Each rose at his name, raised his arm and said, "I swear...
...extra shifts for the parochial pupils. Threatened with tar & feathers, Prophet Voliva declared himself a two-gun man ready to kill at the drop of a hat. Then he announced that he would reopen all but the lower grades of his parochial school, require every pupil to take an oath of allegiance to him. Satan and his imps would try to destroy the world sometime in September, he said, and he needed an organization "like Hitler's" to combat them...
...hair clipped and the twelve circular brands of the Buddhist wheel of life burned into his bullet pate. Two years ago he returned to Germany to gain converts. Jailed in Cologne for an old debt he had forgotten, he got out by swearing a pauper's oath, returned to China followed by such neophyte Buddhists as a French perfumer, a filling station manager, a professor's widow, an Italian composer. Chao Kung opened a monastery of his own, drew crowds with his lectures in Chinese and English. But last year he was still restless. Resolving to carry...
...claim to the English throne, based on the intermarriage of the Houses of Normandy and England. It was as good a claim as any, except that it was obscured by William's bastardy. That had been no bar to his Norman succession. But William's strongest claim was the oath of Harold, obtained from the Englishman during his sojourn at the court of Normandy while Edward was still living. This is the traditional view of William's claim. Belloc emphasizes it by dilating upon the nature of the feudal oath. Harold had become William's "man", and his repudiation...