Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presents it in those terms. He ballyhoos himself as "a genie of journalistic paste jars, a fantastic flower nurtured in a pot of printer's ink, a product of the freedom of the press." True to his profession, he says he has done his best to tell the truth, adds: "Occasionally my tongue slipped into my cheek." No one who has ever been to the circus will mind that...
...FULNESS of TIME-Gertrude Capen Whitney - Bruce Humphries ($2.50). Adventures of a great-souled Georgia spinster among a group of Pennsylvania Quakers caught in the toils of a mystical mystery. A string of crystal beads and a seeress play important, if incomprehensible, parts in this fictionized revelation of Truth...
Only the most minor liberties with historical truth are taken and these only when demanded by the exigencies of the theatre. This devotion to accuracy, however laudable, tends to produce a play which allows its narrative overmuch attention with a consequent vitiation of dramatic vitality. The core of the drama is inevitably the love story of Parnell and Kate O'Shea and this central theme might bear a more profound treatment than Mrs. Shauffier has accorded it. Nonetheless, the story has such merits of its own that mere dramatization suffices to make it an absorbing theatrical experience...
...pastorate of a church and then by word or act seek to deflect that church from its cooperating affiliations. . . . It is considered unethical for one minister to make professional calls on members of other churches. . . . One must not malign another minister or besmirch his reputation. If all the truth must be spoken, let it be spoken in ministerial affection." To succeed President Franklin the Northern Baptists elected Herbert B. Clark, banker, of North Adams, Mass...
...pumpkin, an indigestible moon in a green sky and some portraits. Bleated New Jersey Art Critic and Columbia University Art Instructor Raymond O'Neill: "This show will make New Jersey appear to be painting in a corner away from the march of art and time. To tell the truth, it's hard to get steamed up enough to attack these pictures. They are grand examples of artistic decadence. . . . Everyone will get the wrong idea about New Jersey...