Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aimed at by an individual or a political organization can justify the secret or open employment of corrupt or otherwise dishonorable means. The spokesman of a party has the duty to tell the whole truth, and is justified in urging conclusions which his conscience approves, however distasteful or harmful they may be to the opposition. He proves himself unworthy if he knowingly accepts advantage from falsehood, even though not uttered or inspired by himself...
...month ago, Judge Atwell called upon two policemen to testify that they had bought a pint of whiskey from Mrs. Angelina de Luca, defendant. Attorney Serri, counsel for the defense, remarked in his summation: "A modern miracle is a prohibition agent who tells the truth on the witness stand." Judge Atwell bristled, thought of the impeccable Texas constabulary. After the conviction he loudly rebuked Mr. Serri, said: "His recital of the bootleggers' game is astonishing to the court, and I cannot understand how any reputable attorney could have such first hand information. . . . In my country had you made such...
Gentlemen of the Press. The second newspaper play to arrive in town this season was immediately subjected to a comparison with the first, The Front Page, which did not thereby lose its position as a headliner. The comparison, though, was interesting for it proved that truth, stranger than fiction, is not as exciting when placed upon the stage. Gentlemen of the Press lacks the hectic, unreal, melodramatic turbulence of the Hecht-MacArthur piece and insomuch it is a more true and a less compelling drama. Ward Morehouse of the dramatic page of the New York Sun wrote it; he should...
...evils of Communism, and I have shifted my allegiance to the Kuomintang Party, and to the Three Principles of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen. These principles now suffice for me, and I think that after long searching I have found what most appeals to me as truth...
...anyone who had followed, step by step, events in Mexico. "The road which led him, together with Obregon, over the corpses of Carranza, Gomez and Serrano, led Calles fatally to pass also over Obregon's dead body ... did his best to hide the key that makes the truth obvious...