Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the truth is known about the Roosevelt Administration, the Harding Administration, with its Ohio Gang, will look like a convention of Sunday school superintendents...
...Selma recognized the truth of his words, married him to bring the story to a happy conclusion...
...inconceivable to my mind that anyone who wishes to believe the truth will not believe the statements of such people as the above mentioned minister and doctor. Peter Stuart Ney was a school teacher at Mocksville, N. C. and boarded at the same house with my mother's father, who was also a school teacher in the same neighborhood. ... I have copies of Peter Stuart Ney's own handwriting, and we have coming to us from Paris copies of Marshal Ney's handwriting, which we plan to have compared by the modern handwriting experts in Washington. Several...
...view in The Flowering of New England, Van Wyck Brooks has unobtrusively created a new type of critical literature that meets Thoreau's exacting standard of excellence. Thoreau said that at first reading a book should be impressive for its common sense; at the second, for its truth; at the third, for its beauty. Into a crowded and shifting background, made up of hundreds of minor, typical, New England figures, Mr. Brooks has woven the lives of his heroes, picturing them in the cities, the country, the seaport towns, studying the books they read, the letters they wrote, their...
...departures, for leaving his hat in a special place by itself, so that he will not have to rummage for it when he makes his getaway. Sensitive of other people's feelings to the point of anguish, he will sometimes blurt out what he fears is an unpalatable truth, then hastily cover up his remark with polite qualifications. Conversationally compact of nods and becks and wreathed smiles, he is a very different sort of fellow at his writing table...