Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That there was no truth in the President's charge that the Courts prevented flood control. For generations Congress has built flood control works without interference. The TVA decision to which the President referred, he admitted in press conference, was an injunction controlling only TVA's power activities, did not interrupt work on its dams. Said Raymond Moley: "I should welcome the opportunity to speak to the man of whom we heard Thursday evening, to the man who, in the sweat of his brow, piles sand bags on the levee at Cairo. And if I spoke...
...said as Duke of York, "My chief claim to fame seems to be that I am the father of Princess Elizabeth." To a pushing cinemagnate who managed to buttonhole the Duke and make an offer as fabulous as it was vulgar, the present King quickly replied with perfect truth, "You can tell your firm that I make my own films of my daughters." Newsreel companies never know when he will call up to borrow a $45,000 sound camera, truck and delighted, grinning crew to help their King & Emperor shoot a scene...
After all the outery that followed Mr. Santayana's novel, to the effect that he was making fun of the Boston character, it is nice to see the truth at last revealed, all stark and naked: that the Boston character makes fun of itself--really...
...interest of truth and fairness, we feel that the petitions already singed should be scrapped and replaced by a new petition which explains and quotes the Teachers' Oath Bill in full. Sidney Q. Curtiss '40 Merwin K. Hart...
That nation of rhetoricians, the Irish, love to kiss the truth with generous euphemistic smacks, sometimes like to roll the tart bitterness of an understatement on their curly tongues. Such a concentrated less-than-truth is "The Trouble," their phrase for the five years of battle, murder & sudden death (1916-1921). Such Irishmen as Ernie O Malley, who not only saw the Trouble at first hand but did their best to help it along, referred to it simply as "the scrap." But as Author O Malley well knows, and as his Army Without Banners well shows, those troublous scraps were...