Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Lieut. Edward Graeb, called in from the Juvenile Bureau: "We do not intend to smirch the reputations of the high-school girls, most of whom are of prominent families." But another police official snapped: "The boys all came through like little gentlemen and told the truth. But the babes [girls] lied faster than a horse can trot. Honest, we never saw such fibbers...
...under the sun possess the power to root out any thinking, whether it be radical or reactionary. Authorities in the Middle Ages tried to root out heresy, only to see it spread like wildfire. The sole force that can root out erroneous thinking is the ultra-violet ray of truth. For "the vicious minorities whose motives are inimical to. . . the principles on which the Republic was founded" will never be shackled by a teachers' oath. These minorities are the heretics of today. And the Governor has decreed that we are afraid of heresy. It is an appalling state of mind...
...light, entertaining, vacation reading, no book could better suit than "Light Woman." After we close the cover, however, we do not feel that its value lies only in its entertainment qualities. We find that there is "more truth than fiction" in the character and actions of Mitty...
...forced to conclude that, as far as an academic education is concerned, the man on the platform looks upon the tutorial system as the backbone and his lectures as somewhat unnecessary and irksome supplements. For the best student, who makes the best tutee, this approach has just enough truth to be used as an easy escape for the less-than-top-notch professor. Obviously, for the man who is dependent on lectures alone, it spells disaster, and with Plan B about to go into effect for some it will mean disaster...
Chief U. S. illusion, says Priestley, is the notion that Americans are dyed-in-the-wool individualists, and for that reason hostile to the Russian collectivist scheme. The truth, he argues, pointing to the easy way of mass U. S. propaganda, to the lavish Russian imitation of U. S. ways, is exactly the other way round. "That is why," he concludes, "America is the country of awful flops and sudden gigantic successes." In short, "the average modern American" is a socialist at heart, but does not know...