Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once more the bitter truth is driver home that the American democracy has no room for intellectual giants. Idealists, geniuses; thinkers when placed in high office, are cramped and bound by an inelastic mass opinion. They may struggle, as Wilson and Hughes struggled, to escape this bond--without success. Charles Evans Hughes will be called a great Secretary of State because he stretched these chains farther than others, but as a whole his diplomatic record is a history of the mediocrity of American democracy. And who will ask why he resigned...
Said William A. Brady, producer: "I sat with a group of people and enjoyed over the radio free of charge a program which I can only describe as gorgeous. . . . The plain truth is that we of the theatre are headed straight for ruin...
...Chinese who, as recent events have shown, are not slow to exchange their medieval methods of warfare for the modern system devised in the Occident, have accordingly made looting a crime. This is, of course, only a half-truth, because in China there is no National Army, but an enormous number of private armies, each governed by a different discipline...
...firing squad. He did nothing of the kind. He quietly slid a janeta beneath the fifth rib of each. Of course if you don't know history it is just as well to make a stab at it, since so few people know enough to know the difference between truth and error...
...Both men protest too much. . . . But both statements have a basic foundation of truth. We must admit that a large part of American college life consists of charm collecting...