Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would suggest that he take a walk around the Beecher statue in Brooklyn, and note that on the pedestal is the figure of a Negro girl raising a branch of palm to show the gratitude of her race. And perhaps, if the deep truth of that symbolism strikes home, he will doff his hat in salutation to a man the latchet of whose shoes he is unworthy to unloose...
...Wants Truth...
...among callers on the President, "Chief Justice Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court, with the eight associate justices," when, of course, Chief Justice Taft's name is "William Howard" and when, as TIME must have known, Associate Justice Sutherland did not call with the rest? The truth lies in fine distinctions and from TIME I want nothing but the truth...
Doomed to lack the range and the essentially new concepts of a great poet, Mr. Wheelock with his sixth book again proves himself capable of valuing these limitations and of creating, within them, poetry that possesses a sure delicate beauty and bright depth of truth...
...graft and Governor Smith as the leader of Tammany, who had allowed "the Red Light District to crawl to the very steps of the State Capital." His charges were almost wholly unfounded, but that is to be expected in any political utterance of the kind. Its relative lack of truth was not what caused Republican leaders hastily to wipe their hands of the whole affair...