Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the White House physician, had "not told the truth" when he said he "lost his socks," but had actually turned a profit...
...only U.S. supplies that the troops at Konitsa have seen are G.I. rations. Said one muleteer: "Those rations are all right if you've got to eat them, as we had to during a siege; but, don't misunderstand me, Miss, to tell you the truth, they are not our kind of food. Even my mule Nickola would not eat that corn...
Snapped Young Henry: "The blunt truth about this relationship is that it made Mr. Ferguson a multimillionaire and cost the Ford Motor Co. $25 million in the process." As for patents, the Ford Co. claims Ferguson's had all expired on such features as Dearborn Motors had copied. The rest of Ferguson's "distorted" story would be answered "at the proper time and place," presumably in court...
...prime defect of "realistic" writers was their unrealistic failure to understand that "no man lives in the external truth, among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied walls." "True realism," Stevenson concluded, "always and everywhere is ... to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice. . . . For to miss the joy is to miss...
...Respectable" is a word that the current generation of undergraduates may consider to be inaccurate. Not many buttons popped off vests after the Virginia, Rutgers, and Princeton games this season. Furthermore, members of the squad, if ubiquitous rumors in the Boston press have any truth behind them, have not found life milk and money on Soldiers Field this past fall. Taken in the light of the fact that Dick Harlow has been a sick man, the existence of dissatisfied undergraduates and disgruntled football players should surprise nobody. The surprising thing is that dick Harlow was able to achieve what...