Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truth of the matter probably is that Congress had nothing in mind: it apparently intended to open to publication the amounts of individual taxes, but forgot, on the journey from Section 257 to Section 1018, that the latter might conflict with their intentions in part...
...thousand pities that the author failed to include such Conservative personalities as Lord Curzon and the Duke of Devonshir. The dusting of these gentlemen might have disturbed the atmosphere at Westminster, convulsed the author with literary sneezes and choked the readers with amusement not unmixed with that grain of truth that invariably deserts the object and sticks to the duster...
CHALK FACE-Waldo Frank-Boni & Liveright ($2.00). John Mark was a doctor and a genius, albeit a young one. He loved "Mildred, chaste as thought, Mildred, deep as discovery, Mildred, remote and imminent as truth!" Two things stood between him and Mildred-his parents' opposition to the match and a rival whom he had never seen. The rival was murdered under circumstances of which he was mysteriously conscious. Shortly thereafter, his parents were also assassinated. In both crimes, a strange figure with a white head was curiously implicated. John Mark began to feel that he himself was in some...
...psychology, which regards all human behavior as mechanistic, gives them substantial backing. Then Freud, with his theory of the evils of suppressed desires, confirms their conviction that one can do no wrong if he follows his instincts. A sort of righteous zeal, therefore, inspires the modern crusade to let truth have its way and show things as they really...
...Times are not what they used to be," said the venerable Hammurabi about 1900 B. C. And the older generation has kept on saying it to the present day. But more than ordinary truth is contained in their charge that the golden age when children were seen and not heard is past. On every side Young Precocious rises up to stand upon his rights. Strangely pertinent now is the outburst of Shakespeare against the children actors of his time that "these are now the fashion, and so be-rattle the common stages . . . that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose...