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Show . i 8wearin. It may be said without exaggeration that swearing forms an important factor fac-tor in the masculine vocabulary of nearly every civilized nation. Great writers like Shakespeare knew this. A collection of Shakespearean oaths and epithets with their etymology would ail a volume. Shakespeare realized that they were inseparable from a faithful faith-ful portrayal of virile human character; charac-ter; that no truthful picture of common com-mon life would be possible without the use of that strong vehement language in which men express their emotions. But conventionality forbids to nineteenth nine-teenth century writers what the Elizabethan Eliza-bethan age not only tolerated, but ap-j ap-j proved. Philadelphia Press. |