Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wright brothers got around to their 1903 flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. In recent years, official Communist publications have claimed that the incandescent lamp, the radio, the steam engine, penicillin, and many basic discoveries in theoretical sciences were Russian products. A few of these claims have shreds of truth to them; most are the wildest fantasy...
...Unfortunately, the young man's charm, or something, is so tremendous that in no time at all he has the wife, the secretary, the daughter, and the maid all madly in love with him. But with the daughter it's real, and she gives up her bourgeois notions about truth. The final curtain finds her fixing breakfast for her "emperor of China...
...role of the daughter, Lilli Palmer is called upon to be an unkissed, naive girl. Miss Palmer is a truly lovely, fresh thing to look upon, and reacts with the fiery bewilderment of you when she discovers the truth about her lover. She is especially good in the scene in which she proposes to him, reminiscent of Ingrid Bergman in her uncanonized days. Lawrence Fletcher as the father is a funny burlesque of the nouveau riche businessman...
This charge was a typical Communist distortion. Truth was that one day in 1944, Hungary's Nazi dictator Ferenc Sza-lasi had decided to set up headquarters in the bishop's palace. Mindszenty, who was sheltering about 100 Jews in his cellar at the time, declared that so long as he was bishop, none of Szalasi's men would enter. The Nazis promptly occupied the palace. The police found a sizable store of clothes which Mindszenty had quietly collected for Hungary's persecuted and pillaged Jewry. The clothes included underwear which Szalasi had wanted...
...Bertie" seems to have boggled and backtracked. He sent Lawrence an outline of his democratic ideas for lectures-and got it back scrawled with screams ("no! no! no! no! no!"; "Do go to the root"). In Letter 15 Lawrence was more explicit. "You simply don't speak the truth . . . you are really the super-war-spirit . . . you want to jab and strike, like the soldier with the bayonet . . . You are simply full of repressed desires . . . As a woman said to me, who had been to one of your meetings: 'It seemed so strange, with his face looking...