Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took just two hours for the truth to leak out. Some one simply had to tell that Mrs. George Higgins Moses (nee Florence Abby Gordon), the lively, pince-nezzed wife of the bellicose Senator from New Hampshire, had been chosen to head the luncheon club. "Mr. Moses is President pro tern, of the Senate, you see, so that made it most appropriate . . .," etc. etc. Mrs. Gann was elected a Senate Lady only on a nonvoting, honorary basis...
...gave the Laborites a chance to cry: "Baldwin has gagged the Prince!" It lent a ring of truth to the comment of Labor's Daily Herald...
...book is a reporter's story, and its merit is that of all good reporters' stories--the fairness and accuracy of detail that is the living truth itself...
This is a comforting thought, but it might be more comforting if it had not been thought before and so often that it seems really to need no more crusaders to champion its truth. There has come from the presses lately a steady stream of literature, all of which maintains, in effect, that the colleges are all right, and do not deserve the criticism leveled at them by a number of people which is certainly less than the number now refuting the criticism...
...Lawyer Longley read with amazement the following newsflash from Detroit: "The legal department of the Ford Motor Company has been abolished and its entire personnel dismissed as of next pay day." Pressed for explanations, Lawyer Longley grinned. He knew, of course, that the despatch had stated only a half-truth. It was true that the Ford company had abolished its legal department. But Lawyer Longley, as a member of the Detroit firm of Longley & Middleton, remains chief Ford counsel, and with him will be most or all the dozen lawyers who sensationally "lost" their jobs...