Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once but several times that not only is he Senator Thomas's ad viser, but that he helps the good Senator to write many of his letters and speeches. Perhaps, he has no right to make any such statement. ... If, on the other hand, he is telling the truth, I think it behooves 'the Senator to speak more softly and more reverently of money changers...
...more codes to Manhattan for the President to sign. Oct. Q-Summer boomlet ends. "Buy Now" campaign is rushed into the breach. Oct. 10-With strikes still pocking the nation from coast to coast, General Johnson warns the A. F. of L. convention: "The plain, stark truth is that you cannot tolerate the strike. . . . Public confidence will turn against you!" First crackdown, on a Gary, Ind. roadhouse proprietor, whose Blue Eagle is recalled. Oct. 12-Weirton Steel strike starts. Oct. 25-Administrator Johnson announces NRA's reorganization into four industrial divisions. A fifth division, compliance, he personally takes...
...sneer and condemn the cause for which Father Coughlin is so courageously working only identifies it with the same lack of principles held, I regret to say, by so many of our newspapers. The common people may well count the radio a blessing. Through it they have learned the Truth...
...virile nation-devoted to distinguish every possible kind of comfort at every hour of the day and night." Most notable increase is in the number of U. S. words and phrases. "However rude or crude" they might be, said Professor Gordon, "they were so expressive, so impudently near the truth, that it was hard to resist them a place in any honest lexicon." U. S. eyes may note examples from Jack London. George Ade, O. Henry, H. L. Mencken, Zane Grey-even so unliterary an exemplar as the late great Baseballer Christy Mathewson ("yellow streak"). In the long list from...
...point of view, since it yields up no ponderous cosmology, no bone of contention with which he may take issue. Accepted for what it is, however, the book makes excellent fire-side reading. Most of the narratives are well chosen, and in many cases they have the ring of truth. In selecting them, Yeats-Brown has wisely avoided the glossy newness of the recent past, and, by temperate use of the editorial pencil, has preserved that quaintness of style which lends glamour to the adventurers of another...