Word: candide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many words as his oppouent proceeded to score almost twice the number of points, of which the following is a fair sample: "You hint that I'd have acclaimed Arnold Bennett's novel "Riceyman Steps', if the author had been an American! I leave this insinuation to a candid world--and you to the mercy...
...mooted one. Here at Harvard the Debating Union has occasionally attempted to give the matter the light of forensic discussion, but other affairs have obscured the question, and it has been, at least publicly, forgotten. Yet now, when all things relative to the military must submit to a candid appraisal, there is no reason why this particular phase should be overlooked...
...readers of the Sunday supplement are frankly curious. They will read about stock brokers and the King of Spain with equal avidity. It never occurs to more sophisticated and less candid people that memoirs of a certain type are only scandal sheets, bound between covers, and, by no possible logical circumvention, in any better taste. It would be preferable to let the dead rest with whatever reputation they managed to carry away with them; for, according to such books, they had more than enough trouble for their lot while alive...
Several months ago, Colonel William Mitchell of the Army Air Service was too candid in the expression of his opinions concerning the way affairs of aviation were being conducted in the United States--too candid, that is, for the comfort of those in charge; not candid enough, perhaps, to satisfy the curiosity of civilians. As a result of his frankness, he is now appearing before a court-martial. In theory, he is being tried for insubordination and other offenses. In fact, the Navy department is being tried for maladministration and inefficiency...
...such criticism have generally been limited to the upperclassmen, who have been able to voice their opinions through the Student Council, the college publications, the Debating Union, and other organs for student self-expression not available to first year men. Never before has such an opportunity for a candid voicing of opinion been offered to a Freshman class at Harvard...