Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meantime, at Paris, rumors tripped nakedly around whispering 1) that Ibanez was to be deported; 2) that he was to be sued by the French Government under an obscure and unquoted law. There was probably no truth in these reports...
...truth, as a library or as a mere collection, it is the smallest of drops in the largest of buckets. The splash is, therefore, proportionate in size. But why did the drop make the splash in the bucket at this particular time? The only satisfactory answer that can be vouchsafed is that this is the 155th anniversary of the great Emperor's birth, or the 103rd anniversary of his death. If neither of these answers is correct, the drop must have dropped not by any conscious cooperation of the publishers, but simply because it dropped...
...piece of music, well adapted to harp and orchestra. Chicagoans listened with interest to this novelty. Sweet were the strains they heard, filled with all the dreaming melancholy, the tender elegance, of another day. Yet they were glad when Conductor Stock led something else. For sentiment cannot long garble truth; the viol, the violin, the pianoforte are all superior to the harp; nor can that gracious instrument any longer move men as it could long ago when jongleurs played, by candlelight and firelight, in shadowy halls...
...rates. It constitutes by weight nearly 25% of the matter handled and furnishes only a little more than 5% of the revenue received. It is a part of public policy, however, to grant specially low rates as a subsidy to the press to aid in the dissemination of truth and journalism and all the other benefits of the printed word...
...Truth-in-Fabric. Passage of the proposed bill which would require the labeling of wool fabrics with a statement of the percentage of virgin wool, shoddy, cotton, linen, silk which each contains...