Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...face of such criticism, Ethelreda Lewis, discoverer, editor, and co-author of Trader Horn, maintains confidence in her garrulous and often tedious old peddler. And by way of backing up her publishers' brilliant advertising campaign, based as it is on the essential truth of Trader Horn, she writes a 52-page introduction to volume two, refuting all past and future doubts as to authenticity. She emphasizes the difficulty of computing dates because the trader's 74 years have (conveniently) mingled and mellowed into great confusion: instance his conviction that the Great War was in 1902. She records...
Unhappiness, lifted from Capt. Carranza, descended upon the White House housekeeper. Hours since had the kitchens been scoured, the house put in order for the summer. She faced the President, spoke the truth: "We have nothing in the ice box, sir." A moment's hesitation, and the President was master of the situation. Said he: "Very well, we will eat out." They lunched at the Pan American Union building...
These were the words with which Buffoon Will Rogers described the invocation of the deity at the sessions of the Republican Convention (see p. 9). Will Rogers spoke without reverence but he spoke the truth. Four divines - an Episcopalian, a Catholic, a Hebrew and a Methodist-had. prayed on four successive days with a great air of spontaneity but without lifting their eyes from the written page to God. Though extemporaneous outpourings could only reasonably have been expected from the Methodist, it was a pity, devout observers felt, that the appearance, at least, of immediate inspiration had not been affected...
...survey of the front pages of modern newspapers convinces us of the truth of most of the charges levelled against the journals. The newspaper art of making much ado over unimportant events and neglecting matters of political and historical interest is demonstrated to us day by day, not alone by tabloids, but by high-minded and supposedly intellectual journals...
...have not yet, however, approached the cardinal significance of the American exam game. The paragraph, skimmed by a twinkling eye, rousing no more than an amused comment on the inexhaustible inventiveness of those Americans, contains in truth the seeds of a mighty revolution in the intellectual history of all universities, and thus, in due time, of all the world. Harvard has played Yale at English literature. When Oxford annually plays Cambridge at Greek, at modern languages, at history, at theology, at mathematics, at science, the scope of the revolution will begin to be perceived. Learning and intellectual prowess will...