Word: candor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Questioned about his projected legislation to enforce morality (TIME, April 4), Signer Mussolini replied last week with extreme candor: "I myself reached my supreme goal after having passed through the stern discipline of life. ... I drank, I made love, I danced, I incited people. ... I did all these things with fury and energy. . . . With this complete knowledge of life I consider that Destiny has appointed me to purify the Soul of Italy...
...Parisian Beauty Shoppe" shows with fearless candor the hellish machines and devices with which ugly dowagers become pretty...
...Tribune announced: "The undersigned resumes the editorship of the Tribune, which he relinquished on embarking on another line of business six months ago. Henceforth it shall be his endeavor to make this a thoroughly independent journal, treating all parties and political movements with judicial fairness and candor, but counting the favor and deprecating the wrath of no one." But immediately there was a move to oust him from control. "My misfortunes do not come 'single files, but in battalions.' And so many of my old friends hate me for what I have done that life seems too hard to bear...
...Established authors, especially such contributors to the Saturday Evening Post as Irvin S. Cobb, return to pronounce like benedictions upon Premier Mussolini and all his works. Last week, in Paris, Louis Bromifield, 30, author of three financially and artistically successful novels* recounted to newsgatherers with the alarming candor of youth impressions gleaned on a recent visit to Italy...
...between certain groups in both universities lies deeper than the two Princeton, game issues of the Lampoon. The Crimson editorial of yesterday should make this a it closed incident. Friends can afford to be frank, only hypocrites need resort to simulation. In a spirit of mutual respect and absolute candor let us examine the cause of this unfortunate illfeeling and assess it in its true light. I believe that the chief causes of the present situation...