Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meantime, Dreiser's publishers blare forth with sensational advertisements; America's foremost living novelist, as they declare him to be, has written "with the artist's loftiest vision" a tremendous book. Somewhere in all this welter, it seems to me, must be a kernel of truth. Perhaps it is in the significant fact that "An American Tragedy" is being far from phenomenally sought by the book-buying public...
...truth it was probably this spring fever sort of thing which spoiled my critical faculty completely the other night when I dared the rigors of Radcliffe long enough to see Benavente's "School for Princesses". For I rather liked the way it was done. Of course the heroine's continual pegieggedness was a trifle diverting for one who wished to concentrate on her regality. And the court gallant, the Duke of Asperin or Whatnot, might have done a little less bubbling about and made a few of his words intelligible. Yet those are the things which give amateur dramatics these...
...racing motorboat skimmed into the harbor of Nice. Pressmen rushed to greet it and hailed its principal passenger as an escaped turncoat Fascist who would now reveal the truth about Mussolini. ^ They were not disappointed. General Cesare Rossi, formerly head of the Fascist Press Bureau, stepped from the motorboat and told a thrilling tale of his "escape" from Rome by motor car in the dead of night to Genoa, where he was picked up by the motorboat, chartered on behalf of a Paris newspaper which is to print his revelations...
...correspondents eagerly drank in the General's somewhat premature but colorful remarks: [ bring to the world the truth about Fascismo! I was one of those accused of complicity in the Matteotti murder. I was later shamefully prevented from proving my innocence before the courts by being released through a general amnesty. I still declare that Premier Mussolini was responsible for what happened to Matteotti!" (TIME, June...
Vickers Ltd. Some time after the meeting between Maria del Pilar and Zaharoff, he strode into the London office of the great munitions firm of Vickers Ltd. If report speaks truth, he asked a single question: "If I am able to procure for your firm the munitions orders of the Spanish Government, will you reward me with a partnership in your establishment, as well as the usual commissions...