Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consider that you were sent to an out-of-the-way place, as you charged in your statements officers who tell the truth...
...Minister Stresemann of Germany from going to the now famous Locarno Conference. From croaking throats came prophecies that M. Tchitcherin's presence in Paris last week foreboded a Communist uprising in France. To heads more subtle it appeared that M. Tchitcherin was at length approaching perilously near the truth when he spoke as follows to correspondents: "So! Let there be no rumors, gentlemen! I am merely passing through Paris on my way from Germany to Mentone [French Riviera] for two weeks of healthful rest. Then I shall return to Paris. ... So! You shall see me again, gentlemen...
...sense "put away in lavender". And it sometimes seems as though she were living on her reputation. But that reputation is something almost worth living on. Like an old figure from another time Boston stands as a link between the progressive present and the stalwart past. In truth, she has few contemporaries in tradition, she stands alone, and not ignobly. As a writer in the "New Republic" states, she "was not made, but was born. And almost to the purple...
Bright Lights. Charles Ray has attempted to come back. He has picked one of his old country cousin stories with a tattered straw hat on its head. Into his peaceful rural life comes a cabaret girl from Manhattan. The story is trivial and- truth be told-Mr. Ray is not so good as he used...
...bargain. The real issue is whether American colleges shall remain colleges in the older meaning of the word, or whether they shall cease to be such, to become the modern counterpart of the Roman circus as dispensers of spectacular entertainment to the public. Woodrow Wilson once said with truth that athletics were the "side shows of academic life". Today football tends to become the main show. Good sense calls loudly for a return to proper relations between football and scholarship at Harvard...