Word: falsehood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student movement in China has many unjustifiable features; but while the stirring of hatred of foreigners is often accomplished by misrepresentation and falsehood, the end in view is primarily justice and freedom...
...knowing-as more constant readers of the Graphic know -that this sheet itself is not always above judicious juggling of news, of photographs, placed the editorial in his pocket as a talisman against falsehood, trudged back along the wagon-road to his once-cheerful kitchen...
...Master's life. It might be supposed that, with an autobiography whose avowed intent was "unadorned veracity," the private life of the composer would not be a hard matter to probe. Unhappily, Mr. Newman finds that, far from being a frank revelation, Mein Leben falls just short of actual falsehood...
...membership in that ancient and honorable institution of Trial by Jury; to lay before them the duties, privileges and prerogatives of a juror, to open their minds to the fallacies of human testimony, the whys and wherefores of intentional perjury, the methods by which truth can be distinguished from falsehood and exaggerations can be reduced to their proper proportions...
...story you have told," Senator Norris vociferated, "is a falsehood. I know a blackmail plot when I see it. If you were not a woman, this would not be the end of this, I tell you. I did not kiss that girl. She kissed me. Intimations were given to me that if I did not favor Henry Ford's bid for this Muscle Shoals, some sort of thing would be hung over my head. I guess this...