Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turned around the corner from the liberalism of the first decade of this century to the conservatism of today! Roosevelt will live in our history, not as a great President, but as a great agitator like Isaiah and Elijah. He stood in the courts of democracy and thundered the truth about its corruption of King Demos into its teeth...
...announce to the world this truth: The Fascist revolution comes from the moral patrimony of the Italian people and will make Italy great...
...Christopher Robin, who encouragred his father (by asking for more) to write a book of jingles called When We Were Very Young (1924). Writing things was nothing new for Author Milne. He had had plays of his played both sides of the Atlantic (Mr. Pim Passes By, The Truth About Blayds, The Dover Road). But the success of his children's book startled every one. This season he has another book, with Christoper Robin doing things all through it with Winnie-the-Pooh. Winnie was Christopher's favorite Big Bear called "Pooh" because of a noise made blowing...
...mind; but, as Mr. Ring Larder reminds us, some like them hot, some like them cold. Religion at Harvard and religion at Yale have this in common, that each is a natural growth of the habit of mind characteristic of the university. Yale's motto is "Light and Truth," Harvard's is "Truth" alone. Whether intentionally or not, the distinction appears to symbolize a difference in the Yale and Harvard attitudes...
...Mencken has long led his cohorts into righteous battle against unrighteous churches unil even he has tired of the numerous enemies of the churches could have been able to visualize the result of a beauty contest in a small Ohio town. The church, probably seeing goodness and truth in beauty as well as beauty in goodness and truth, was anxious to stimulate interest in higher values. A Miss Little won the contest; her lot and the upshot of the whole affair was that her father directed two well-aimed shots at the two champions of the champion...