Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example of the book's method. The Jews, the nationalization of banks, and the standing of the Storm Troopers are taken up in a like manner. All of this evidence is used to create a single impression: that the Nazis are consistent only in that they never tell the truth. Though no flag of warning is displayed, there can be no doubt about the editors' propagandist intentions. They, like many another writer of late, are busily grinding their axe in the hope that some day it may fall on the neck of Der Fuehrer. The book's merit lies entirely...
Then it was, when thousands of intellectually able men and women of every shades of political thought refused to commit themselves, Bilbo, the coorageous champion of right, truth, honesty and morality, fought the battle of his life to keep Mississippi dry, and I challenge the world to disprove the fact, that it was due more to his efforts than to any other factor, that the victory was won, and Mississippi was kept dry. & Saved from this debauchery...
...Appeals to become a city judge in Thomasville because he wanted to devote more time to "business." Last week the State hoped to prove that Judge Luke's business consisted in defrauding the investors in his building & loan association, that only Oscar Groover could have told the truth...
When he read this editorial in University of Southern California's Daily Trojan last week, Southern California's famed Football Coach Howard Jones became indignant. At Kansas City, en route to Pittsburgh, he gave his squad a talk: "If there is any truth in it, it will show up Saturday. ... If we lose, I'll be ashamed of all of you." When the Southern California squad arrived at Pittsburgh for the biggest intersectional game of the week, a sports-page headline said: FILM CUTIES' TOY TROJANS ARRIVE...
...readers accustomed to a well-defined short-story tradition, Author Saroyan's subjective soliloquies may seem impertinently irrelevant to the price of eggs. His unconcern with plot is enough to drive contrivers of well-made stories mad with resentment. All Author Saroyan tries to tell about is "the truth of my presence on earth." In his own person or in thin disguise he writes about barber shops, bawdy houses, cold rooms in Manhattan or San Francisco, pawning his typewriter, finding a little brown snake in a park, being kept after school because he had laughed at the teacher...