Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...model slinked before scribbling newshens, who busily sighted the bearings of each belt, buckle and bow. After one tense model marathon, the New York Herald Tribune's capable Eugenia Sheppard (TIME, Aug. 12) confessed: "I was a wreck by the end of the show, and to tell the truth, my notes are a mess...
...never did give anybody hell," said Harry S. Truman. "I just told the truth on 'em, and they thought it was hell...
...extremist newspaper Transvaler has recently printed letters from troubled readers warning that "we dare not keep the African in our country and deny him full civil rights . . . We are going to pay with the blood of our children for the luxury we enjoy today. That is the ugly truth." There is a strong but probably wishful feeling in United Party circles that the nation is turning away from the Nationalists. For the Africans there is little choice. The United Party also wants the African kept in his place, but more gently...
...gaily recurrent romance and absentee devotion. This 17th summer, with the other girl married and a new one (Madge Ryan) in her place, with relations between the two men rather strained, and with various flare-ups and intrusions, all the fun fizzles out; the show goes bust. In truth, the revelers are has-beens, the one in brawn, the other in lure; their revels now are ended...
...doll-house world they have staged their summer frisks. It drives home, too, their refusal, even with the dollhouse in collapse, to part with their illusions. The demonstration rings true, but Playwright Lawler has really had to take the audience by the hand and lead it up to the truth; somehow it has not the weight of the play behind it. Too many earlier scenes were flattish, too much writing was prosy; nowhere did 17 years leap out in a sudden glance, or a lifetime emerge in a comment. The play makes soberly clear the sad human arithmetic that twice...