Word: candor
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...With a candor terrifying to all conscious of the discretion expected in a diplomat, Mr. MacVeagh spoke as follows before a meeting of the English Speaking Societies of Japan at Tokyo: "Had the British ambassador been here he would have said: 'to study English, go to England, which is the home of the language.' Of course, I disagree with him here, but I admit the purest water is found at its source...
...salt in their ink. For that is an angle of life. And to live some people must see life from all of its angles, just as others must refrain from seeing it from any angle. "Hatracket" will arise whenever Bostonians find their bucolic boundaries crossed by realism or by candor. And the same race which maintains the limits of Boston culture will frown upon those who jibe at the rouged tip of its saintly nasal organ even as they add more millions to those already heaped upon the altars or Bernar McFadden...
Says Shaw with superb candor: "My reason for taking out a private mono-mark is that I am what is called a celebrity. It is sometimes excessively inconvenient to be a celebrity, because of the advertising value of a celebrated name...
...Candor is the keynote to the trend of the literary world of today," said Major Ian Hay Beith, noted English author and playwright, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon...
...hasty trip to England has been one of complete pleasure and satisfaction. . . . Mr. Chamberlain is delightful . . . charming. . . the soul of candor and honesty . . . so intelligent ... so utterly frank. . . . Some continental newspapers recently made remarks on the con duct of British representatives in Syria.* After my conversations with Mr. Chamberlain I can say these representatives have always in their statements to their chief displayed the utmost desire for co operation with the French administration...