Word: truths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with those. We believe that the decrease is due to the publicity given this crime and the fear of a law by the United States, providing for punishment for those who participate and are responsible for lynchings. The American people, generally, have been for the first time told the truth regarding lynchings, and that they are not caused by the commission of heinous crimes, except in a small part of the total number lynched...
...Hands across the sea" and the "British-American brotherbood," long since relegated to after-dinner speeches, are truisms which have suffered considerable damage through over-repetition. But the mere triteness of these phrases does not blind to their fundamental truth, when, as today, news comes of the continued athletic rapprochement of Oxford, and Harvard...
...refusal to evacuate Cologne contained all the typical elements of what is known in Germany as the agonizing 'After-War', and in France as 'Poncareism': that is first a skillful and violent press propaganda, with no more than the proverbial grain of truth, depicting a Germany armed to the teeth, with the most outrageous allegations just vague enough to make a checkling up impossible; then, with public opinion sufficiently indignant the stronger party constitutes itself judge and pronounces judgment, and finally in an arrogant note, refuses to divulge to the other party the evidence on which judgment is based...
...Premier Herriot has made it plain that all France asks is time to acquit herself honorably. In the midst of debate hot words have been uttered both in the French Chamber and in the American Senate. It is now high time statesmen return to sanity and newspapers to the truth...
...might have said that censorship is "vicious", or "subversive of truth". It would even have been better to say that George Washington picks the all-American football squad, and that Walter Camp was the first President of the United States: that Cleopatra was a saint, and that Joan of Arc a naughty, naughty girl; but never that censorship is un-American. Anything but that...