Word: candor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Candor...
Publisher Alvin Wiehle of the Washington Herald-Telegram writes with brutal candor. When a recent District of Columbia practice blackout flopped, Publisher Wiehle combed the District's hair with a sneering editorial headline: "A blackout? Nuts! A whiteout!" During the recent scrap drive he pressed his editorial trigger again: "The people must conserve, conserve, conserve, but the Government is free to waste what it pleases. Attached to the wall of the public rest station at Dupont Circle are two iron trellises ... at least 40 lb. of good scrap. Why isn't something done?" He also runs pointed society...
Guardian in Manchester. Last week's second remarkable statement on war aims was an editorial exhibiting the full candor and power of one of the world's great journals, the Manchester Guardian, which can truly claim to speak for many more British millions than can Britain's held-over, lightweight, Tory-loaded, wartime Parliament. Said the Guardian...
...secular school where her popularity depended on whether or not her mother, Edna Woolman Chase, editor of Vogue, was "crusading against fashions for the young." As soon as she could, she bought herself a gold lace negligee with pink marabou feathers "of which Mother remarked, with the candor which has always distinguished her, that it was a tart's idea of heaven." Then Mother gave her a choice of more school or a trip to Europe...
...casualty list was hopelessly snarled when her survivors, rescued by the Pecos, were plunged into the sea again when the Pecos, in her turn, went down. The story was finally broken, because the longer it was withheld the more would public confidence be shaken in the Government's candor about bad news, but even after 35 days the casualty lists were not fully straightened out-if some of the survivors got to Java or other enemy-held islands, their fate may not be known until after...