Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wise, honest, and just, in private life he loved a loving wife. He could bow without condescension and kneel without servility. He was a gentleman: he was courageous: he was firm: and he was kind. His presence in a turbulent and cynical world lent some air of stability and truth to an institution that men had come to feel was fragile and dishonest. And he preserved for himself and for his own countrymen, as Mr. Punch had it, the integrity of their own souls...
...authority on the subject of policemen and fireman, having portrayed one of New York's finest in "Face the Music" and now appearing as the cultured fireman in the "Little Show." "But in the summer I'd rather be a policeman, because their uniforms are lighter. To tell the truth, I really don't care about the matter. Boston policemen?" Mr. O'Connell paused to adjust a bright red scarf around his neck. "Oh, they're swell...
...pilots but the gondola and its scientific apparatus were utterly lost." Spontaneously the delegates rose, chanted the stirring Soviet hymn to the dead. But outside on the streets jubilant paraders continued proudly to congratulate each other on Russia's latest triumph. They were not to know the truth until next day's morning newspapers. But even then they could not know the whole truth. Nobody could. There was not enough left of the crushed gondola or the three broken bodies to supply the story of the tragedy. Guesses: 1) Winter weather had contracted the balloon...
...position of Auditor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, carrying with it a greater power of investigation than any other state office, necessitates a religious regard for truth," and James H. Sheldon, recently visiting Professor of Citizenship at Boston University on the Maxwell Foundation, in a speech given in Chelsea last night. "He is entrusted with the financial and administrative problems of state institutions, and he is expected wholeheartedly and disinterestedly to further their well being. In no case is he expected to engage in a journalistic or political campaign...
...organization, Mr. Hopkins declared: "We'll do our own housecleaning. Our legal department tells me all this is nothing more than was bound to happen. But I never anticipated anything of the kind. I suppose I'm naïve and unsophisticated but that's the truth and I feel very badly about it. . . . The thing gets too big for you to keep in touch with all your people and those things happen...