Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wily General induced about half the "Cabinet of Monocles" (including von Papen) to go to the President and tell him that German public opinion had become so set against von Papen that no Cabinet could carry on with him as Chancellor. The beauty of this argument was its "naked truth"-a favorite phrase of persuasive General von Schleicher...
Because of the simplicity of the play, a good deal of old-fashioned proverbialism is expressed with considerable force, but nowhere does the play flatter itself into searching after Truth. The weak and henpecked husband, and the wilful, self-seeking, and unattractive wife and elder daughter are all foiled in the end when the younger sister marries the hero, and Mr. Connelly and a forger are thwarted in their attempt to swindle Miss Lord and dupe the world of art; the most admirable touch of all is that the benevolently paternal and sophisticated art critic of the Herald Tribune brings...
...common cause, Eliot said, "It is Wordsworth's social interests which explain his criticism of the old poetic diction. Wordsworth's poetry met with no worse reception than might have been expected." Eliot recalled the time when he and Ezra Pound were called "literary bolsheviks," and said that in truth they were affirming forgotten standards rather than setting up new ones...
...better education, a new code of morals, and new social standards furnish the remedy for the evils in local government. Seasongood continued: "This education must begin with the youngest and extend through high schools and colleges. It must diffuse the truth that local government is not, as now considered by many, the least important branch of government, but the most vital. For such it surely...
SALTUS (Edgar) The Truth About Tristrem Varick. American First Edition...