Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seem to be a gross exaggeration in as much as Lady Londonderry's guests, politely or no, insist that "there was scarcely anything to be had except lemonade and sandwiches" and that "you were extremely fortunate if you got anywhere near the buffet". These laments incontrovertibly reveal the bitter truth that there was not even enough...
...legacy of the stories and superstitions current in his day. The tales regarding kings buried deep in the rock under the pyramids have been relegated with the tales of black magic and priestcraft to the confines of fiction. All have been considered too far fetched to be true. The truth of the statements with regard to Gizeh seems now in a fair way to become proven conclusively...
...genius of America. . . . There is nothing personal in what I have to say. Dr. Cram says that he offered the work to one or two Americans before employing Angell. There are a great many more to whom he could have offered it, and men of the greatest competence. The truth of the matter is that Dr. Cram does not know the work that is being done, by American sculptors...
...when a woman takes to horses after adolescence and then chiefly for show, there is some truth in the opinion of the British mooter of the subject,* because her thigh muscles may not have been adequately strengthened in girlhood. But for the girl taught to ride astride from childhood there need be no such fear for her or for her health. She will have learned balance, kept her spine straight, and strengthened her abdominal and thoracic muscles as well as those of her legs. She can keep her seat in a walk, amble, trot, canter, gallop or jump, even...
...Barber Jack is a greater. By some occult means, he possesses himself of names, schools, home towns, parental fames-some say, of the tax returns, creeds and girlfriends' names-of every member of every entering class. Barber Jack would have known instantly that the freshman spoke the truth, that he was indeed John Davison Rockefeller III. He would have known that Freshman Rockefeller had entered Princeton University after preparing at Loomis Institute, that he was studying for a B. S. degree, that some day, all things being equal, Freshman Rockefeller would be one of Princeton's most eminent...