Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prettiest wrapper. Two seasons usually suffice to prove to these newcomers that the contents of the carton seldom justifies the effort spent in untying the silken ribbons, but these two seasons often leave ineradicable traces on the health and dean's office standing of the seeker after truth...
...whimper, and concentrate on the delectable vision conjured up by their mother's words. At last their vigil is rewarded and the familiar step of their progenitor echoes through the open transom. But as the door swings open upon the expectant group, one glance suffices to convey the dire truth that the father's quest has been in vain. Abstract knowledge is the only sustenance he has to offer in the eyes of the brave mother...
Extended across the advertisement was the gigantic headline: IS THIS GOOD AMERICANISM? GET THE FACTS-LEARN THE TRUTH. It was difficult to tell at first glance whether the advertisement was pro-or anti-Catholic. Caught eyes read on. The explanation: "Many sections of our country, particularly where there are few Catholics, are being flooded with millions and millions of pieces of literature of the type exhibited here. . . .' Then there were quotations from the U. S. Constitution, William Jennings Bryan, President Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt on the subject of religious liberty. The entire advertisement was the work...
When distinguished Editor James Louis Garvin had well perused this charge, he wrote: "In the whole farrago, there is not one grain, not one atom, not one little jot nor tincture of truth. No such stipulation exists. The American gentleman concerned is incapable of suggesting any thing like it. The King's subject concerned [Editor Garvin] is known to be among the last men alive to whom such a stipulation could be safely breathed...
...supporting Republican Wellington D. Rankin. Anaconda aids the campaign for re-election of Governor John E. Erickson, Democrat. Clark's Free Press exulted, last week, when Candidate Rankin spurned the "Aid of a Kept Press as Kiss of Death." Anaconda's Standard headlined: MUNCHAUSEN A PILLAR OF TRUTH COMPARED TO CLARK. Listed in the story were 6 "major, frenzied, malicious Clark lies." The sixth was "the statement made daily by the Clark newspaper that it is devoted solely to the interests of the people of Montana...