Word: falsehood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rear Admiral William S. Sims, retired: "In a speech at Oakland, Cal., I said: ' I could have had my arms decorated with gold lace up to my elbow if I had stuck by Daniels' (ex-Secretary of the Navy's) falsehood that the Navy (in 1917) was fully equipped and ready to fight...
...York Herald, referring to Mayor Hylan, printed a headline: " Away Since Jan. 3." The Mayor wrote a letter to The Herald protesting " falsehood...
...University Medical School, and Professor of Social Ethics in the College, will be given this evening at 8 o'clock in Huntington Hall Rogers Building, 491 Boylston street, Boston. The general subject of Dr. Cabot's lecture is "Veracity and Its Enemies." He will speak tonight on "Truth and Falsehood in Art and in Medicine...
...November 10, at 8 o'clock. The speaker will be Richard M. Cabot, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Social Ethics, Harvard University. His general subject will be "Veracity and Its Enemies", and his first lecture will be on "Definition and Varieties of Truth and Falsehood." The time of this course will be Thursdays and Mondays at 8 o'clock...
...probed to the bone. It will be. But the Congress must apply the probe. Mr. Daniels has been tried and found wanting. After the fourth of next March he will be chiefly remembered in the Navy for his contribution to its slang of a new synonym for a cunning falsehood. For on every man-of-war and at every shore station today, officers and men know that to tell a "Daniels" is to tell a falsehood with such cunning as to stand a good chance of not being caught. Boston Transcript...