Word: candor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franker than most autobiographers since Rousseau, Murry makes no bones about revealing some unflattering facts, but his candor often leaves a disingenuous impression. Born in a London suburb in 1889, of poor but respectable parents, he was early made to feel the young hopeful. He won a scholarship to a public school (Christ's Hospital) where he learned to be ashamed of his background. He sums up his youthful self as "part snob, part coward, part sentimentalist ... an unattractive personality." But he went up to Oxford with a reputation as a bright lad. His chances for a first-class...
...which honest answers from Hitler would certainly be useful. He sent his manuscript to Pierre Etienne Flandin for additions, which the French Foreign Minister cheerfully supplied. Mr. Eden last month took his completed catechism to the British Cabinet where Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was delighted by its British candor and self-righteousness. Less delighted were Cabinet members whose idea of how to surprise a man's secrets is not to ask for them...
With a gush of enthusiasm which will intensify the faith of the believer, but probably repel the skeptic, Author Strong surveys Soviet achievement, finds it all praiseworthy. Embarrassing inquiries she tackles with slippery candor. The Soviet Union sells oil to warring Italy because ''idealist gestures are dangerous." Political prisoners are not sentenced merely for expressing anti-Soviet views: "all were charged with definite action against the government." Convicts live and work in "labor camps" under such admirable conditions that some refuse to leave when their terms are up. Stalin has no dictatorial powers; he is just an exceptionally...
Some of these boys, with perfect candor, have told me bluntly and boastfully that they practice the art of love with more perfection than white boys, and occasionally one of the girls has supplied me with information to the same effect. In fact some of the disclosures in this regard are perfectly startling in their nature." "Well," said Señor Paredes urbanely, "the Judge admits that Filipinos are great lovers...
Finally the shocking, aristocratic candor of Their Lordships became so excessive that popular Lord Cecil, a great maker of addresses at middle-class League of Nations meetings, intervened to dampen the shocks. "As long as we remain members of the League and signatories of its Covenant," Lord Cecil reminded Their Lordships, "we are bound to carry out our obligations under that Covenant. I regard the motion with misgiving because it would mean that we no longer would be bound by provisions of a treaty we had deliberately signed. That is a doctrine which is not only extremely dangerous...