Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afford a birdseye view of the members of the Senior class, from the man who was in college one year as an undergraduate to the distinguished individual who lists five sports and innumerable committee and executive positions. Of the man who spent his four years in conscientious searching after truth and gradual strengthening of the fibres of his character there will be little more to be seen than of those who toiled not but spun in perhaps ever decreasing circles...
...world is his vocabulary. It includes the frequent use of archaisms and unusual words such as "rathe," "sonant," "unimpasted," which are not found in the average abridged dictionary. The attempt to recover the idiom of another age so deliberate that the writer cannot have realized the many-times repeated truth that the Elizabethtn poets were not works with "thees" and "dosts" and "wilts." Among their contemporaries the words were in good and familiar usage, and a writer three hundred years later is not justified in using them in preference to the language of his own times...
...secret truth about this general election is that whatever party gets into power it will not make a hair's breadth of difference to the country in general policy and tradition. There will be no new social revolution if Ramsay MacDonald becomes Prime Minister again. The social revolution is already in full swing owing to income tax and death duties and the breaking up of the old landed estates. The Labor party ... are utterly unable to find any vital differences of philosophy or method between themselves and their opponents...
...truth is that there is no leadership of any kind in this election struggle. . . . Some of the new candidates may have a touch of inspiration, but so far they have not made themselves heard above the market place...
...Spring of 1917, Lenin, imprisoned in Switzerland, employed a "sealed train" of the Hohenzollerns in order to get to the Russian workers. . . . Imprisoned by the Thermidorians in Constantinople I employed the bourgeois press as a sealed train in order to speak the truth to the whole world...