Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know what the Communist objection is. I don't follow the Communist literature." South Dakota's Karl Mundt asked him if he thought Russia was meddling in European affairs. No one could say for sure, Wallace replied, because it was "impossible to get at the truth from what we read in the American press." The press and committee members laughed...
...documentary approach saves on sets and set-pieces, but the endings, as in real life, are either unconvincing or else must be picked over to be good box-office material. To show the mother scrubbing the floors in the end would be cinematic suicide, even though it's the truth...
...closing, Professor Schumpeter deplored Republican apathy and asked his audience: "Now, my babies, why shouldn't you believe in truth when others believe so firmly in error...
...truth was that the ladies had a hard time finding anything to be indignant about. In the last 100 years, they had emancipated themselves from domestic tyranny, political and economic discrimination, laced-up corsets and knee-length bloomers. Man had grudgingly changed his fuddy-duddy notions of what was proper for a lady, had allowed her to do his typing, wait on him in restaurants, manage his budget, represent him in Congress, and stand on her own feet in streetcars...
...real fight, keeps in trim scrapping with the skipper. But when the captain refuses the crew a desperately needed shore leave, Mr. Roberts, to get it for them, promises to toe the line. The amazed and disgusted crew thinks that Mr. Roberts has ratted, only to find out the truth and worship him the more...