Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prompted by the argument that "any change will be for the better." Peace cannot be insured by broad emotional pleas for humanitarianism. Going to war is too personal a matter. Peace can better be obtained by reawakening a belief in future better times and by driving home the truth that no matter how bad things may seem today, life in the trenches would be no improvement...
...speaking and gesturing as though he were appealing to an invisible Stalin behind the glowing cigaret, declared: "I am not guilty. I have been a member of the Bolshevik Party from 1903 until my arrest, and I believe that I am, still a Bolshevik. I did not speak the truth before my examiners.† I lied, of my own free will. I will tell the truth now so that it will reach the ears of the Soviet Government heads. I am not a Trotskyist...
...Godless Vishinsky is misquoting. Judas received 30 pieces of silver. †Before the Revolution he and Lenin published in Vienna Pravda ("Truth"), today in Moscow the official organ of the Communist Party. In 1917 Bukharin was in the U. S. with Trotsky. In Moscow he was editor of Izvestia ("News"), official organ of the Soviet Government, from 1934 until his arrest last year, and as such was Stalin's official Spokesman...
...wife of Jena's Professor Ludwig H. Plate, he sighed, "I do love you so." Frau Plate: "Oh! Don't try to make me believe that." Kurwenal: "I always speak the truth...
...Young is a beautiful woman whose career as a psychologist is wrecked when she is driven out of town by neurotic, wisecracking natives after a trumped-up arrest. Sorriest egotist of the lot is handsome John Smith, who marries with the belligerent vow always to tell his wife the truth. When he kisses his secretary, he tells his wife that the secretary sneaked up on him. He admits looking at other women's legs, but turns his confession into a diatribe on their immodesty. Souring under the strain, he declares the world is going to the dogs, picks fights...