Word: swore
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...real purpose of their conclave, the policemen's lot would have been a happy one. As it was, many said that they had merely gone to visit the ailing Barbara, who has since died of heart trouble. Two said their car had broken down near by. Another swore that he had come to sell Barbara some fish. Barbara himself said that all the guests had been more or less unexpected -and he just happened to have about 200 pounds of steak on hand...
...hostess. Up for prayers at 6:30, Abubakar breakfasts in time to arrive at his office precisely at 8:15, heads home again at 2:15 in the afternoon with enough folders full of state papers to keep him busy until bedtime. Once a heavy smoker, Abubakar swore off after his 1957 pilgrimage to Mecca, now combats the tensions of his job by chewing the bitter kola nuts that he keeps in the pocket of his long white riga...
...Edmund was almost ready to give up the hunt when, according to a letter just received by the expedition's sponsor (Chicago's Field Enterprises Educational Corp.). he happened upon a bearlike skin that his Sherpa guides -who may be con men of the highest-altitude order-swore to be the hide of a large Snowman. Wrote Mountaineer Hillary: ''We regard it as a particularly significant exhibit." Australia's hearty Prime Minister Robert Menzies has often been upbraided and spoofed by Down Under fashion arbiters for his addiction to wide-lapeled, double-breasted suits. Last...
Moving the multicolored pavilions of Camelot toward Broadway, Lerner and Loewe last week were in Boston, bumping into the great shades of past tryout seasons, from Babes in Arms to South Pacific. (Richard Rodgers once swore he would never open so much as a can of sardines without going to Boston first.) A uniquely American practice, the road tryout is as formalized as the judicium Dei the ordeal of the Middle Ages. The road ordeal is by rewriting and cutting, by sleepless nights and interminable waiting, by cold coffee and warm highball, by panicky rumor and wild hope. Severely tested...
About then, Fritz swore off wild oats, in 1931 married Ernestine Zwerleine, later a John Frederics millinery model, daughter of a Viennese architect. He also teamed up with Lyricist Earle Crooker, wrote Salute to Spring (1937), which did moderately well in St. Louis but never moved East, and Great Lady (1938), which opened as will Camelot in Broadway's Majestic Theater, and closed after 17 performances. For four years, Fritz wrote almost nothing but sketches and songs for the Lambs Club Gambols, the intramural games of Broadway. Then a friend in Detroit asked him to do a show...