Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration Building, copied from an English manor house and full of antiques, a flower shop, a crematory where last year 16% of the dead were received and a towering $4,500,000 Mausoleum-Columbarium, with a Memorial Court of Honor, Memorial Terrace, Sanctuaries of Meditation, Vespers, Benediction, Trust and Truth. For Jean Harlow, William Powell chose the Sanctuary of Benediction...
...barren of humor changed their minds last week. Before the wildly cheering House of Commons in his first speech as the nation's leader, "The Unknown" Chamberlain not for the first time revealed a flair for the sardonic.* Of retired Stanley Baldwin he said: "His love of truth wavered only occasionally, when, with a deceit which soon ceased to deceive anybody he was wont to describe himself as a plain, ordinary man. . . . Many comparisons have been made between Baldwin and other great Prime Ministers. For my part I have often thought that, making all due allowance for differences...
...real danger to the established neutrality policy of this nation. The unfortunate war victims . . . might easily be used for propaganda purposes by groups actively seeking sympathy for the Communist-Socialist regime of the Madrid-Valencia government. This crafty scheme is clearly an attempt to becloud an issue the truth of which Americans are at last learning, namely, that the Soviet-supported 'Loyalist' regime, in order to deceive the world of its real anti-Christian objective, is trying to make out that Franco's government is anti-Catholic because the Rebels are seeking to break up the unnatural...
...doubts about the freedom of their press. "The Catholic press today is the largest part of what is left of a really free press," expounded venerable Bishop Francis Kelley of Oklahoma City. ''Its very difficulties have helped to keep it free. . . . The solid foundation of Catholic truth upon which it is built holds it back from following the unthinking crowd. . . . True, it is not indefectible, but what it represents is indefectible. . . ." The convention number of the Rochester Catholic Courier added: "Competent observers have stated that it is because of ... restrictions [admonitions of the Holy See and directions...
...about me that if I should speak out I should offend or horrify them. I love these people, and I want to learn from them, so I keep my peace, which is, I think, good manners. . . . This would be a strange and impossible world if it were inhabited by truth-telling men, men who always spoke out just what was in their minds...