Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...living grandchildren and their various null as liking to have hand in running the Santiago distillery and say that "as soon as a distributor was certain he had landed the agency, he would discover that another Bacardi was dickering with another distributor." This is far from the truth as all negotiations were handled directly with the president of the company or with the undersigned as his New York representative. Your article is correct insofar as it states that "nearly every distributor has flirted ardently" with the company. Oilers of every kind have come to the company from bankers, distributors, jobbers...
...author of "Maguire, Builder of Men," is a bitingly sareastic caricature of that figure of the modern football world so familiar to the undergraduates who have brown to their estate in that era of Rackety-Rax athletics and sportsmanship. The sarcasm, however, never leads one to feel that truth has been sacrificed to the deed. "Eddie," of course, is a composite; his image is not applicable without qualification to all the Banghams of this world but it strikes close...
Talk of war and another 1914 crisis has done its share in adding to the scares and apprehensions which the economic world trembles over, but while statesmen issue notes in stirring phrases the fortunate truth is that money and credit are not as abundant as they were twenty years ago and the likelihood of armed conflict is therefore remote...
...truth is that war is not the next step nor would the use of military and naval power probably be sanctioned by any of the European countries even to prevent Germany from beginning to rearm. What may result from the Hitler defiance is a real test of the idea of economic boycott which was after all the central theme of the League of Nations covenant...
...there is any truth in the Hobbesian maxim that no discourse can end in absolute knowledge of fact, then it is fatuous to paraphrase a philosopher, and reviews of philosophic works are especially futile. Mr. Santayana, furthermore, is the kind of philosopher who seems always to use the right amount of exact words, and thus lends himself to quotation rather than to summary. He needs to be quoted for the vigor of his thought and for the lucidity of his style...