Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Firmin Gemier was born in Paris in 1865. The records reveal that fact quite plainly but they do not give the whole truth, which is that Gemier was born an actor. Most of M. Gemier's successes have been scored in the Théātre de l'Odéon, Frances second national theatre, although, from an artistic viewpoint, it might well deserve to be ranked first. In 1921 M. Gemier arrived at the summit of his ambition when he was appointed Manager of the Odéon, the theatre where he has created some 30 roles...
This book takes no text; it employs no plot to give it body, no characters to give it blood and spirit. Its subject is the continent of Africa; and its strangeness proves once more the truth of an ancient apothegm concerning truth and fiction. Written in the manner of a novel and cast in the pattern of a travelogue, it belongs to that obscure hinterland of literature that W. H. Hudson visited in Green Mansions and Defoe, to a certain extent, in Robinson Crusoe...
...WHAT & HOW ABOUT LOS ANGELES? Are you getting the truth from this ridiculed, startling, impetuous city that claims it is out to become the world's greatest metropolis...
...Enemies are trying to use this case in order to damage the prestige of the Government. They have tried to incline the national conscience against the Agrarian Party, because this political and social party is the one most identified with the present Government. . . . Fortunately, the truth, with an eloquence superior to intrigue and perversity, has demonstrated to all the world that Mrs. Evans was killed by three miserable criminals without any other reason than to rob her of the money which she carried and that justice will soon pronounce sentence...
...years Fallon, the possessor of a singularly effective voice, has been noted as much for his continued appeals to jurors as for the vehemence of his crossexamination. "The truth will come to you," he said in his address to the jury on his own behalf (characterized as "perhaps the most brilliant achievement of his career" by the New York World), "clearly and suddenly as though written with chalk on a board, and you will know me innocent. I leave with you all that the world holds dear...