Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word "inland" in reference to Beaumont, Tex., was a slip-up on my part, so far as I know. It did not belong in the paragraph. I stand convicted of this offense, thus, by one word, robbing the book of all truth...
...Plays: Wurzel-Flammery; Belinda; Mr. Pim Passes By; The Truth about Blayds. Books, principally for children: When We Were Very Young; Winnie-the-Pooh ; Now We Are Six (dedicated to Christopher Robin, son of Author Milne, with whom he is very affectionate...
...note to Wilson putting him in his proper place; but I was not able to persuade Lloyd George, and after lunch he went off to Walton Heath. Either he is seedy or meditating a speech. I am certain we (British, French, Italians) ought to get together and put the truth baldly to Wilson. He is now taking charge in a way that terrifies me, as he is only a super-Gladstone?and a dangerous visionary at that...
...your O. M. [Order of Merit]. Of course it in no way represents your services in this War, for, let me tell you in case you don't know it, you, more than any other man, living or dead, you almost alone, won this war. That is the bare truth, the whole truth...
...Calles government that the revolt had been "smothered," it was by no means certain that the situation was so roseate as officials painted it. Rumors continued to pour in stating that the revolt was shaping itself into a veritable revolution. Somewhere between the two sets of statements the truth was doubtless approximated. But there was no denying that the heavy hand of the Calles forces had discouraged the revolters for the time being and had driven them into the mountains and had therefore rendered them comparatively innocuous. This being so, General Alvaro Obregon remained as the only aspirant...