Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hotel. Speedily interviewed, the visitor impatiently pointed out that her hair was blonde, not red, that she was not named Magda as is his Majesty's companion. "If you've ever seen the other Mme Lupescu," she added tartly, "you ought to know I am telling the truth. Why, she's ten years older than...
...Dunster House the very first man who was questioned turned out to be a Lampoon editor! No truth to be found there! Aside from that Dunster wasn't so bad. The seeker after knowledge discovered that 24 per cent of those resident therein studied a fair amount of the time, 18 percent had bill session" or bridge parties, 12 per cent were away for at least the early part of the evening on extra-curricular activities (it is well known how Lampoon editors spend their nights), and finally there was the 46 per cent that habitually passes its evenings elsewhere...
While California, Cornell, et al have jumped into the headlines lately because they have been forced to cut their athletic programs, and while various other universities have been worrying themselves to death for fear that the truth about non-athletic cuts will get into the headlines, also, things have been happening throughout educational America that are really much more alarming than the more spectacular events of which we all know. One is continually hearing that the Depression is a great teacher of youth. Yet it is just as obvious, and almost as trite, to observe that the Depression is worse...
...Wordsworth. Keats, he showed, was attaining a higher criterion for poetical values. Be indicated passages in Keat's letters, which more than anything else, show this romanticist to have outgrown the pulpit type of poetry. Mr. Eliot differed with Keats on the latter's pronouncement that Beauty is Truth and vice versa. "No one will deny that much truth is ugly," he said...
...tortured courage. Never did one man, and a lone Scotchman, strive to embody in himself ideals so contradictory--guessing like a child about Mirabeau, about Lafayette, and guessing rightly, but struggling with words and phrases which stretched like impossible pagodas into a German sky. Stormy, ill-tempered, tenacious to truth and error alike, once he had spoken but yet so glorious in his failure as brave as splendid, as startling as a Norse god in his twilight. "Past and Present," one of the fifty volumes left behind by this man whose cardinal virtue was silence, will be discussed this morning...