Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...condition of Indian women, Mr. Yeats-Brown flatly disagrees with Katherine Mayo (Mother India) that they are an enslaved sex: "Her facts are correct as regards the infinitesimal percentage of women to whom they apply, but her deductions from these special cases are a travesty of the truth...
...legal profession has lost much of its old standing for many reasons. Mr. Landis has qualities which, disseminated over the years, might go far to recover this prestige. He combines with the clearest and fairest of minds a devotion to truth and the right that the country sorely needs in every branch of public service. Indeed, democracy can scarcely survive without the example and leading of such men in posts of responsibility. The whole legal profession is to be congratulated on President Conant's acumen. The appointment is nothing less than distinguished. --N.Y. Herald Tribune
...down before her master and was careful that the needles were stuck firmly in her knitting as Rochester seized her in his arms; but it seemed the Boston of 1937 was mildly astonished at Jane's spirit of independence, her hatred of self-righteousness, and love of truth...
Challenged from the floor on this point, Representative Fish blurted: "If you want me to tell the whole truth I will, and it will be 100% worse than what I've said. The Republican Party itself inspired the sending out of vicious attacks on Social Security in pay envelopes. Why. I have letters from William Allen White and other liberals denouncing this practice in such language that I could not use it before this assembly...
...eldest son of the Royal House enter London. This idol of the British masses (for such His Majesty unquestionably was) vanished, and after a little space other idols (for such King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and crown princess Elizabeth will soon be) were substituted. The basic English truth which emerged is that the Kingdom long ago became and is today neither a democracy nor a monarchy but an efficient oligarchy, more or less benevolent. Its symbol is the Crown, but the really effective British crowns are the top hats worn by Stanley Baldwin and a few hundred others. They rule...