Word: candor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Odom dismissed the Christenberry charges with "a derisive laugh." In all candor, however, he added: "It is possible that someone said something about shooting Long. Wherever two or three people gathered together that thought was expressed?on street corners, in hotel lobbies and in barrooms...
Atrocities, slaves, fate. Since the rest of the warm-hearted world will not easily swallow such ice-hearted candor, Il Duce's Son-in-Law Count Ciano worked happily away in his Ministry of Propaganda last week. His best Ethiopian atrocity: "On the night of May 31 wild Ethiopian tribesmen captured 4,000 head of cattle from an outpost in Italian Eritrea and carried off as slaves a number of men and women. The tribesmen mutilated several children who were abandoned bleeding on desert sands...
Though machine guns rigged to fire through airplane propellers without hitting the spinning blades were among the first air developments of the War, the King asked with his affection-winning candor: "How is that possible?" His question having been answered at length, the 70-year-old Sovereign chuckled contentedly: "Soon I shall know all about these things...
...Lafcadio Hearn's background appears in his son's reminiscences, largely because, like many sons, Kazuo Koizumi overestimates the extent of the world's familiarity with his father's career. Eleven years old when his father died, Kazuo Koizumi writes of him with affection and candor, draws a portrait of a strict, sensitive, nervous, sometimes self-pitying man who was dominated by fear of an early death, tells an occasional anecdote that throws a cold realistic light on the romance of Hearn's expatriation and marriage. That the son has thought deeply about his father...
...neurologist, founder of the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin, Nazi exile since 1933; in Nice. Unkempt and walrus-mustached, he was called "the Einstein of Sex," had heard the confidences of 30,000 sexually maladjusted people. He believed that absolute sexual normality is rarer than abnormality, crusaded for candor, removal of restrictive sex laws and customs. Said he: "If a man wants to understand a woman, he must discover the woman in himself, and if a woman would understand a man, she must dig in her own consciousness to discover her own masculine traits." Dr. Hirschfeld's Institute...