Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite several protests I note (with much pleasure) that you do not quibble but continue to use the phrase. It is the absolute truth so why should TIME discontinue writing...
Well posted observers spotted instantly the non-truth of this last headline. They recalled that during the slump of the Belgian franc (TIME, March 29, 1926, et seq.), the Government of Belgium flatly rejected a proposal by Captain Loewenstein that he should lend $50,000,000 "without interest" to save the franc, but only upon certain all too shrewd conditions...
...will now come down to' the real truth...
...liberal regime has been hardly mismanaged, particularly as to things political and intellectual. He of course, goes too far. His alignment of cause and effect is usually distorted. But despite his exaggeration, exaggerations which bring a smile to the supporter of democracy but which Mr. Daudet regards as Gospel truth, there is to be found a germ of truth. Democracy has not proved the panacea for all national ills. M. Daudet believes that Catholic monarchism is the patent medicine which will provide the remedy, and says so in a manner that is comparable only to a combination of Mencken...
...decidedly, truth is stranger than fiction. So much stranger in fact that were it not for the author's reputation and his frequent reference to police records and newspaper files we should set down his tales not as truth, but fiction...