Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hold that it is the best policy to speak the unvarnished truth. I have found a pleasant atmosphere in the discussions so far. Nevertheless, I have had difficulty. Often I am reproached at the conference that I take everything too seriously and that I see everything too gloomily-but then, all Germans...
...producers of "All the Kings Men," which had its first appearance on the boards of the Hollis Street Theatre last night, did well to call it a "comedy drama." For that is just what it is, Believing, no doubt, the truth of the theory that at the theatre one never laughs so heartily as when one has just stared into the half-revealed face of tragedy, Mr. Oursler, the playwright, has attempted to strike the delicate line between straight comedy and unadulterated drama, and has hit it so exactly that both words are necessary to describe the result...
Accepting this as gospel, Mr. Stokes has told the irreverent truth about E. Phillips Oppenheim, Sinclair Lewis, Fanny Ward, Susan Ertz, and other celebrities of the moment in "Pilloried...
...this lack of simultaneous advance on the part of the schools, the colleges are, if not entirely, at least partially to blame. The old and reiterated cry against the rigidity of the required entrance examinations has in it more than a measure of truth. At the same time it is undeniable that the schools themselves have failed to look beyond mere set requirements, many of which, in the light of modern educational investigation, have been shown to be of little value in developing the boy either for continued work in college or for life...
...Sedgwick, if he has not yet discovered the individual author of the documents, must be convinced that their authorship rests between the mother and the daughter, and must be sheltering both from the family disgrace that would follow upon the revelation of the truth. But, regardless of the loss to his own reputation for discernment, has Mr. Sedgwick the right to maintain this attitude of chivalrous protection in a historic matter of such profound national interest