Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME in its issue of June 17, p. 22, contains a statement reflecting upon the private character of General Ho Ying-chin. It says: "Most Chinese were convinced that War Minister Ho had himself been rewarded with Japanese cash last week.'' There is no truth whatever in this innuendo thus given out by TIME. In justice to General Ho TIME should make honorable amende. Will you please see that immediate correction be made so as to remove the undesirable impression which that statement in TIME has given to the public...
...created a number of special awards, scattered gratuitous $5 bounties this way & that. The contest will henceforth be expanded and enlarged, "the prize offer will be multiplied several times." Well might Country Home grow enthusiastic over their crossroads correspondents. Excerpts from the contributions displayed genuine simplicity, natural beauty, instinctive truth. As intuitive a piece of insight into the female character as ever came from Willa Gather was the report of Deborah Whitaker on her trip to New Hampshire's Governor's Ball, as published in the Milford Cabinet & Wilton Journal. A poultrywoman on the verge of the event...
Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn was no eccentric, no drunkard, no lecher, no misanthrope, no hermit, no seeker after scientific truth. He simply loved to paint. He also loved mankind and knew it as few painters have ever known it. He liked money and what money bought; he knew everybody in Amsterdam from the famed Burgomaster Jan Six to his Amsterdam Ghetto neighbors, the Portuguese Jews, and the tramps and prostitutes along the spotless city's spotty waterfront. He spent most of his life turning out an amazing total of paintings, etchings and drawings, most of them first rate...
...brilliant chapter on the King and his reign, Biographer d'Ydewalle characterizes the daily routine of royalty in terms that are enlightening. Plagued by intriguing politicians, the highest compliment Albert could pay his minister was his sardonic "You, at any rate, have always told me the truth." One of his most trusted advisers was Vandervelde, onetime president of the Second International, and of him the king remarked, "He is more than an adversary, he is a rival." He brooded over the casual criticism of journalists. He saw hidden reflections in an article on Maximilian of Mexico, had the author...
...Kanner urges parents to be patient with bothersome children, to tell them all the truth they can understand, to lie never, to beat them never, to show them a composed, orderly example ever. If a parent provides such a common sense environment for his child to grow up in. and if the child is kept well and cured of physical imperfections, then Dr. Kanner promises the child will naturally grow up to be a perfect, healthy little lady or gentleman...