Word: candor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chiefly interesting for their light on Morris' much-maligned business and political activities in France, the diaries are also notable for their account of the Terror, their Pepysian observations on political and social intrigue among the French upper crust. Even his enemies might enjoy Gouverneur Morris' formal candor in describing his tempestuous affair with the Comtesse de Flauhaut ("As I am heavy and plagued with a Head Ache Madame will not let me give her Pleasure, as it may injure my Health. This is Kind...
When a lawyer named Carlton Cole Magee bought the Albuquerque morning Journal from Albert Bacon Fall and friends in 1920, Senator Fall with childish candor told him most of New Mexico's political secrets, incidentally confessed he was broke. With this information Lawyer Magee turned crusader, fought the Fall machine tooth & nail, was jailed for libel and mauled by political thugs, finally forced to sell his paper. It was a Magee telegram to Senator Thomas James Walsh concerning Fall's finances that made Teapot Dome a criminal case. By 1923 another Magee paper, the State Tribune, was foundering...
...consequence of winning the Nobel Prize for Literature is that the prizewinner's next books come in for much severer criticism. If any Nobel Prizewinner stands to escape such hardening of the public heart, it is Pearl Buck. With her usual unpretentious candor, she was the first to admit that the Nobel Prize award honored her beyond her deserts. "That's ridiculous," she said when she heard the news. "It should have gone to Dreiser...
Favorite sports of handsome Edgar Queeny are shooting moose and ducks, sniping for new divisions and-dearest of all-knocking off public relations stunts. He calls public relations "business manners and morals," espouses complete candor. Last week's survey of stockholders-lavish to the point of including pictures of "typical" Monsanto stockholders in the "typical" city of Cincinnati-was frankly designed to prove that Monsanto is not owned or run by any of "America's 60 Families...
Although Inn of That Journey is far more candidly documented than Huckleberry Finn, it lacks something else for which its candor does not compensate: the literary verve of Mark Twain...