Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They should be glad that I do not write memoirs! I would place too many Great Ones in a bad light. I should have to tell the truth about many persons and events - which would be too cruel...
...Rubens). How was dapper Monte Carrol, U. S. hero touring France, to realize that the entrancing Helene was not the sweet, good country lass she appeared to be in the shady bowers of Bretagne but really first assistant crook to Count Boris Zanko, Parisian archcriminal? When he discovers the truth, he calls her several bad names; and she, irritated, embarks upon revenge, thereby providing a Salome motif. Her weapon will be Count Boris, best swordsman in France. The thoroughgoing depravity of this fellow may best be understood when it is explained that he is Russian. In the end, however, love...
Cleopatra discusses everything from Greek philosophy to Tennessee evolution, and always she manages to insinuate the worst. Only at intervals does she make some mater-of-fact statement which catches the reader's fancy and conveys more truth then all of her long dissertations. For example, she says: "At the slave bazaar I also purchased a negro porter and a Greek philosopher. I paid five thousand sesterces for both of them --a most exorbitant price...
...actual circumstances of his position and enables him to construct and to maintain a standard of values which is of his own making. To feel his long studies hidden in his own breast, his thoughts at times revolving tumultuously there as though they were animated by the seed of truth and must therefore out, yet again subsiding in acknowledged error, and at the same time to see harvests of wealth and reputation won at first blush by those who could not wait to speak, yet lost upon the entrance of the next eager voice, this is, not perhaps to enjoy...
Still I had read it, and if the truth must be told, with amusement, finding it typically American, quaintly ungrammatical and sophomoric. Further it did not seem to be well disposed or given to amiable qualities. The conspicuous examples of the latter are too long to rewrite. However a few apt specimens of false fine writing occur in "famed," "one," "onetime" and "able." There are others as atrociously bad. Its public must be one that admires redundant simplicity...