Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long been one of the foibles of Anglo-Saxon races to Characterize the Latins as foolish, sentimental people, and to consider themselves as particularly rational and practical; and this delusion is still widely popular. Nothing, of course, could be further from the truth. It is the Latin who looks at the realities of life, and who, arguing like Machiavelli and Mussolini, from what man is, decide what government must be. It is the Anglo-Saxon who commences with an abstraction, an ideal conception of what ought to be, and finally shapes his state upon opportunity, according to theory...
Discounting the tumultuous cries of the Republicans and Communists, the most serious criticism leveled at the King is that he does not appear often enough in public. The truth is that he is first a domestic man and then a King. When his children were young he was frequently to be found in the Royal nursery with the Queen, playing mumbletypeg on the floor...
...young American who has lived some years in Russia, has caught all the swift horror of those cataclysmic days, has limned his plot against a background that rings true. Rasputin moves evilly through the picture, and Kerensky, Lenin, the dreaded Cheka are delineated with more than a modicum of truth. It is a colorful, kaleidescopic tale, ranging from scenes among the simple, suffering peasants to all the lavish splendor of the Imperial Court ?the whole shot through with the sharp truths of racial contrast and alien heritage...
...truth is that the commencement address of 1912 would never have been suitable for 1914, nor would that of 1914 apply at all to the state of affairs in 1918. Today is unlike any previous period, not only in time but in evolution of ideas. Seldom have radical opinions upon any subject received so wide favor nor have they often come simultaneously from such heights of authority...
...adheres to the more dramatic type of narrative. It is apparently an attempt to treat news articles by the standards of fiction. In a sense there is ample justification for this attitude. It is the newspaper man's business to vivify and dramatize news, within the scope of Truth. Several notable examples of this function include the Pulitzer Prize story of the eclipse of the sun and a story of photographing the nucleus of a helium atom...