Word: factually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place, as real power. He has ac cepted it as his own power. ... To at tain real power, of the mind, of the spirit, is a long slow process. Why should man go to all this trouble when he can so easily attain this vicarious power?" "It is a factual age, and in a factual age women will always rule. In the world of fact every woman has the advantage of me because she has something I cannot have . . . but let her come over into my male world, the world of fancy, and surely I will lose her there...
Smart Money (Warner Brothers) is a fast, factual and exciting cinema about a Greek gambler named, after several real ones, Nick.* He gets started in a small-town barber shop, running a poker game on the side. His customers so respect his poker playing that they stake him for a big-town game. Ingenuous Nick gets cheated on his first excursion; the next time he gets punched in the face. The third time he wins, and afterward uses a big-town barber shop as a blind for his elaborate gambling house. Especially fond of blondes, he pats a manicurist...
...Spanish Republic's avowed determination to protect ecclesiastical property by martial law, if necessary, is factual evidence which supports its accusation of communists and monarchists as responsible for the destruction of churches. It has taken the only wise course. The new Cabinet cannot afford to incur the enmity of Rome. If the republican government survives at all, it must walk a narrow road for several years, and any widespread conflict with the Church will roll it into the political quicksands...
Woodcock expressed the opinion that "the gathering of factual material is one of the greatest aids to law enforcement and law observance...
...integrity and a trenchant style, soon put him in the first rank of reformist journalism, in the forefront of those of whom his great & good friend Theodore Roosevelt dubbed "muckrakers." Steffens came into national prominence with his series in McClure's Magazine on the "shame of the cities": factual but highly colored articles exposing the corrupt politics of Philadelphia, St. Louis. Minneapolis, Pittsburgh. From firsthand, expert knowledge of political crooks Steffens gradually came to like them, began to despair of righteous people, to disbelieve in the value of reform. Some (but they would be illadvised) might take...