Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Benchley, dramatic editor of Life, Judge Thayer said all these things to Mr. Loring Goes, of the Goes Wrench Co., Worcester, Mass., at the Worcester Golf Club. Mr. Goes, said Mr. Benchley, repeated Judge Thayer's remarks to him (Benchley). But Mr. Goes last week "flatly denied" the truth of Mr. Benchley's affidavit; recalled no conversation in which Judge Thayer flayed Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti; said: "I have known Judge Thayer since 1908. I have never heard him use language that he could not repeat in mixed company and I have played golf with...
...replies to economic questions. Says Dr. Klein: "We have a rule that a reply?not necessarily complete?must go to every inquirer within 48 hours of the time his question reaches us. . . . The most perishable commodity on earth is commercial intelligence. . . . The concealment of facts is dangerous. If the truth is shocking, the more reason why we should have the truth...
...truth, like murder, must out, I shall have to confess that it was with many misgivings that I took up "Brother Saul," After reading his other books there was a lurking fear that this one might not quite be up to their standard. Could this writer, the breath of whose nostrils is Ireland, and who in his other works writes, figuratively speaking, with emerald ink--could he so far forget his mountains and heather moors as to be able to transport himself back to the Palestine and Rome of some 2,000 years ago and enter into the spirit...
...would, therefore, be greatly appreciated if, in the general interest of truth, you would publish a retractment of your statement and would admonish the writer thereof, who I must conclude, was led by his flair for the humorous to bring up thusly the ancient oriental question of "Hu flung dung...
...Author lives in South Africa, at the centre of the scenes she depicts. She writes with truth and understanding?two qualities which have made her novels (God's Stepchildren, Mary Glenn) interesting, and which make this, a broader work, not only interesting but important...