Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watch. Meanwhile Reporter Lindesay Parrott, an ace newswriter of the World, tapped out the World's death notice for its last edition. An editorial was pulled out and in its place was put Editor Walter Lippmann's "Valedictory," ending with a quotation from Mr. Valiant-For-Truth in The Pilgrim's Progress: "Though with great difficulty I am got thither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I had been at to arrive where I am: My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage...
...Birck ought to have remembered Fontenelle's words: 'If I held the truth in my closed hand, I should well beware to open...
Next day, Bruce's own mind almost unhinged, his Christian faith quite gone, he announced to the blind man his conversion to the Truth of Nature, said he would go out and preach under the trees against all churches. But Midland was spared this final apotheosis. That night an idiot boy set fire to the Methodist church, then hid in a barn. The boy's mother, frantic, thought he was still in the burning building. Bruce plunged in to save the idiot and went to glory in the flames...
...would not publish such a statement unless it possessed some foundation in actual fact. I am always interested in my father's activities, but confess with shame that in regard to this aspect of them I am woefully ignorant. May I, therefore, inquire what is the basis of truth on which you rely for the allegation contained in the words I have italicized and in particular how long and in what way this has been going...
...General was reprimanded by the Navy Department (TIME, Feb. 9; 16). But the imaginative young publicist was very wroth because General Butler "took a story of mine, twisted it around to score a point for himself, and made me the goat." Mr. Vanderbilt then gave newsmen the "real truth": "I was riding with Mussolini, who drove. A small child ran in front of the machine . . . and was hit. I looked back to see if the child was hurt. Mussolini placed his hand on my knee and said: 'Never look back, Vanderbilt, always look ahead in life...