Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This report is a lie," Mr. Stalin told the editor of Pravda ("Truth"), official Communist Party newsorgan. "But, however much the gentlemen of the Havas Agency may lie, they cannot deny that: First, it was not Germany who attacked France and England, but France and England who attacked Germany, assuming responsibility for the present...
...automobile collision at Azusa, Calif., Thomas Leo McCarey, cinema director (The Awful Truth, Ruggles of Red Gap), and Gene Fowler (born Eugene Devlan), journalist, author (The Great Mouthpiece, Timber Line, Illusion in Java), were burned by gasoline flames. Director McCarey had a fractured skull, Writer Fowler injuries to back and chest. First to recover, Fowler telephoned his agent, offered him 10% of his cuts...
...obtains, in the pursuit of his ideal of perfection, the almost terrible beauty of tone that he draws from every single player is the ultimate mystery and miracle that nobody can solve and nobody can duplicate." Lawrence Oilman: "In later years what we know to be the truth about him will not be believed. It will survive as a legend and a myth, a fable scarcely conceivable as fact. ... He ceases to be merely the devoted literalist, and becomes the inexplicable lifegiver, the master of a secret vision and an incommunicable speech, known only to himself and to his peers...
Dorgan gives as his definition of the term "the right of educators to teach the truth, not propaganda, and to inculcate sound and right principles in the minds of their subjects...
...declares that instead of the proverbial truth being at the bottom of the well it has been replaced by "cuttlefish that are fouling it with their inky poison of lies and hate." "Harvard," he hints, "has been specializing in this type of fish" (the communist octopus...