Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the same Gospel. Decked in calm crimsons, blues and yellows, like their 13th Century counterparts, Mr. Saint's saints & sinners glowed from the glass with equal clarity. A cringing Peter denied his Lord. Judas fingered his 30 pieces of silver. Jesus announced to Thomas, "I am the Truth." Jews in the Temple treasury were told, "The truth shall make you free...
...Vice Minister Yuzawa of the Home Office on the occasion of his daughter's wedding was so much moved with his delight that he licked the face of the bridegroom to the surprise of the assembly. To speak the truth, Mr. Yuzawa has the curious habit of licking people's faces when he gets drunk...
...Since his appointment as Vice Minister of Home Affairs, his closest friends, much concerned over his notorious habit, advised him to correct the curious habit. Seeing much truth in the advice, Mr. Yuzawa has been refraining from it as much as possible, but when he attends a drinking party and gets drunk, he feels the temptation and is often seen licking his own hands to comfort himself in his melancholy state...
...Democratic platform than its Republican counterpart of 1936, more literate, more persuasive. Brief, vigorous, and general, speaking in terms not of legislative plans but of glorious ideals was the platform Franklin Roosevelt had drafted. It recalled the Declaration of Independence by six times sonorously repeating "We hold this truth to be self-evident. . . ." It invoked the spirit of Roosevelt I by promising to end "the activities of malefactors of great wealth. . . ." Its ringing eloquence was reiterated in the chorus: "The farmer has been returned to the road to freedom and prosperity. We will keep him on that road. . . . The worker...
...Strange as it may seem, a considerable number of these options are actually exercised and result in authentic changes of ownership of dogs. The district attorney urges that these purchase options are a mere subterfuge and that the man who buys one of them for $2 merely intends, in truth and in fact, to lay a bet of that amount. Very possibly this is true...