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Word: truthful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magazine, from its first issue, has been my Galahad-yes, that's mighty sticky, but leave me what's left of my girlish romanticism. Your articles have been fair, direct and intensely interesting, and now you, my Galahad, that I have cheered on in your quest for truth, have (oh, boor that you really are) spit in the Holy Grail. That tacky, smart-alecky corruption of the King and Queen's visit! Bad, bad taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Whatever the truth, the Nazi machine went into action in Kladno in a big way. Next day virtual martial law was clamped down. Doors and windows of all houses had to be closed between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. Theatres, schools and public halls were closed. The Czech police were mustered in the public square, stripped of their arms and imprisoned for "nonfulfillment of duty." Later they were released and sent to other parts of the country. Heavily armed German patrols roamed the streets with orders to fire^at open windows. Day later, 2,000 reinforcements with machine guns, armored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crime and Crime | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...clash is sentimentalized to the point of insincerity. Ginger Rugers is perfect on the dance floor; in tears she is just another girl. The real entertainment of the movie is the dancing, which makes it an attractive but not a worthy successor to past Astaire Rogers magniflickioes: The sad truth remains: even the best of screen romancers turn almost dull after marriage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Horridly shattered one night last week was the Temple's careful neutrality. Shatterer was the Rev. Edward Lodge Curran, florid, bald, horn-voiced, hammer-handed president of the International Catholic Truth Society. His "discourse" touched on the dedication, a few hours before, of the Soviet Pavilion. Famed for his anti-Communist campaigns, a specialist in picturesque "and" invective, Father Curran raised his and to a new high, thundered against "a ranking city official" who had greeted the Soviet Pavilion with "fulsome unAmerican praise." Asked whom he meant, Father Curran rasped: "The audience knew whom I meant." A few listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Shatterer | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...them Harry Sinclair spoke a great truth when he said finished products must go up or raw materials down. Last week many feared the latter would happen. In Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana, producers began to cut prices as much as 10? a barrel below the $1.02 figure established when the last cuts took place in October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETROLEUM: One of Two Things | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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