Word: candor
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Although Nominee Thomas has scoured the continent from coast to coast, since July 1 has averaged two speeches a day and spent most of his nights in Pullman upper berths, although enough intellectual candor has gone into his speeches to debunk the inflated bombast of U. S. politics, this onetime Presbyterian minister has made much less impression in this campaign than he did in 1932. That year, because many a thoughtful citizen refused to have either Hoover or Roosevelt, the Socialist Party, with Norman Thomas heading its ticket, rolled up 884.741 votes its best record since Eugene Debs nearly touched...
Notable, too, is Editor White's intellectual candor: "The temperamental contrast of the parties indicates that Roosevelt is leading his star-eyed cherubim panting into their millennium, while Landon, occasionally jabbing an elbow in the ribs of the Union League boys and with a come-hither grin for agriculture and industry, is content to go inching along to the Republican promised land. . . . Both conventions were similar, indeed all political conventions are like some vast Indian powwow, a ghost dance making mystic political medicine. ... It is the only voodoo we have in this country-tom-toms, brass cymbals, horns, raucous...
...reminiscences lies as much in what can be made out dimly between the lines as in what is boldly stated in the text. Last year the reminiscences of Mabel Dodge Luhan (European Experiences) and Elizabeth Drexel Lehr ("King Lehr" and the Gilded Age) were prime examples of such oblique candor. Although both authors revealed an intermittent circumspection, both were sufficiently engrossed in telling their own stories to make indirect admissions of which they appeared to be unaware. Cut in the same pattern as those books, The Countess from Iowa is nevertheless much less interesting, much more guarded, offers little spur...
Having thus made a clean breast of the fact that caution was indeed the mainspring of wisdom last week for Great Britain, the Prime Minister added with further candor that so far as he could see the people of Italy and the people of Germany are now just about the only ones in Europe who do have stomach to fight. "I feel convinced," added Mr. Baldwin, "that in many countries, including our own and France, there is such loathing of war . . . that I sometimes wonder if they would march [i.e., fight] on any other occasion than if they believed their...
...affectionately on the back, presented a bouquet to the Marshal's wife, affably greeted their daughter. Later Emperor Vittorio Emanuele and Marshal Badoglio reviewed troops amid deafening plaudits near the Triumphal Arch of Constantine. Once home, the Viceroy of Ethiopia confided with an old soldier's simple candor the main reason why he did in fact return to Rome last week...