Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corporate state of shipping is just as sorry as the physical, and there is little likelihood of attracting more private capital. Mr. Kennedy could find only nine companies reasonably sure to survive on the new subsidies. And Mr. Kennedy reported: "The brutal truth is that the American Merchant Marine has been living off its fat for the past 15 years; that is, we have been subsisting upon the war-built fleet. . . . Many of our operators built their business on vessels which they secured from the Government at prices as low as $5 a deadweight ton. Who is going to replace...
During the past few years, there has been constant agitation to move the music library into the basement of Paine Hall, where it belongs. The authorities, fearing the cost, have refused any petitions on the part of the student body. The truth is, however, that the basement has been laid out perfectly, with one large room, sixty by twenty-six feet, for a library and a number of smaller rooms for victrola playing. The expense of clearing out discarded physics equipment and rehabilitating the rooms with books and scores, already in the hands of the University, would not prove overburdensome...
...Awful Truth (Irene Dunne, Gary Grant. Ralph Bellamy...
...Harold," explained his father recently, "is always reading abstruse meanings into my pictures that frankly I can't see. To tell the truth, he's a damned esthete...
...Awful Truth" is that our heroine has been forced to spend the night with her music teacher in a wayside inn under perfectly honorable circumstances, but can't convince her husband of just how honorable it all was. In fact, she has a hard time convincing the audience. As a result she has to sue for divorce, and play the old, old role of the woman who wins her man by telling him how much she hates...