Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...page 56, in the review of Heart to Heart, suspector Fazenda never finds the truth concerning trifler Littlefield and the engaging seamstress; for in the end Uncle Joe titters and remarks that he knows something that will keep him laughing for the next twenty years...
...drink can get it, and I am willing to ... assert that whoever wants liquor anywhere in any State can easily procure it. Senator Borah knows that. Mr. Hoover knows it. Mr. Coolidge knows it. And so does Governor Smith. The difference is that Governor Smith frankly tells the truth about it. ... Now why can't we be perfectly honest and candid and frank with each other on this subject? . . . It's not a new thing for public men of character to oppose Prohibition. Roosevelt did it, and Taft and Wilson...
...Encyclopedia Britannica, the American proprietors stipulated that all articles on Eastern political questions should be written by Americans. . Such an instruction as the proprietors of the Encyclopedia are reported to have issued can only be directed to securing support for some policy or other, unless, of course, truth has become an American monopoly, like gold...
...promised to reveal, this week, the rest, of the famous Forecast presidential prognostication, but I must break that promise, as I have often broken more important ones. But the truth is that a non-partisan body, composed of leaders of both parties, has asked me to hold off. Word came from rural communities in the West, where the name of Forecast is spoken in hushed and reverent tones, that the populace was a waiting my prediction before going to the polls...
...doesn't look for reason in a parade, just as one doesn't look for rhyme in a campaign song. The seeker after truth who inquires here for that which above all things beareth away the victory must ask of the winds which far around with fragments of confetti and cottonballs strewed the streets...