Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME (Sept. 25) you admit being stumped as to an equitable solution to the European situation-given an Allied victory. Of course there is none. But with a German victory there can be a solution. You may not like to believe it, but it's the truth and to risk a banality-the truth hurts...
...truth about William Shakespeare's ancestry is that it was English...
...machine crushes man as never before, gives peace loving people added realization of the danger to civilization of permitting war to be used for any ends other than resistance to aggression. When war is used as a means of aggressive expression, however, by a government of gangsters under whom truth is not permitted to raise its head, our interest is doubly clear. So long as the British navy maintains the upper hand, there will be large areas in the world where truth can compete with all else from Nazi whoppers down to Crimson editorials...
...great majority of Americans are determined to stay out of war, and the statements of leading ministers and educators can only tend to drive them into it. This propaganda is far more dangerous than any emanating from overseas, for the very reason that it is accepted as the gospel truth by many more people. The lofty positions of these men give their words weight beyond their worth, so that they should give long and serious thought to the subject before making any statement. It is especially disquieting that leaders of youth, the college presidents, should have spoken so soon...
...readers accompany young Tom through the night when he sees a rape and a lynching, through barren Mississippi and Louisiana into Texas, they may feel that if The Asiatics and The Seven Who Fled could be accepted as truth in Oklahoma, Night of the Poor cannot be so accepted this side of Teheran. The language of Prokosch's Americans is a salty, sometimes melodious mimicry, but it rings false too often in such mixtures as "One can't be sure of nothin'. . . ." He speaks of "oil wells burning through the moth-hung night" in Texas, when...