Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Handful of Pleasant Delights", we see the art practised with simplicity and fervor of soul, too honest and optimistically tussling with versification for the polished and invidious grace of the sonneteers Or at least it is so in the following superb example, which merits instant acceptance as the literal truth. Other verses in the book are more fluent and studied...
...comedy of human nature would seem to require fine character-drawing, and this we have--in the first act. The mystic poet of the soil, Beem Sprattling, seeker after Truth in the subtract, follower of the "Oninvisible and the Onbeheord-of," keen admirer of "this fine pretty world," and frequent tenant of the county jail, is introduced with delightful effect. There are also the native flapper, Goldy, and her dangling swain, Roosh. A pleasing picture of the two old people, Lark Fiddler and Granny Maggot is finely drawn. Gilly Maggot and his scrawny, belligerent, and faithful wife, Mag, furnish excellent...
Senator Borah came out with an open demand for Mr. Daugherty's resignation. Several Republican Senators urged the President and Mr. Daugherty to consider the latter's resignation in order. Mr. Daugherty replied: "My elimination, voluntarily or otherwise, will be a confession of the truth of all these baseless charges of our adversaries, and will justify them in claiming that we have thereby admitted their truth, and such admission will accomplish the ultimate end and purpose most gratifying to such adversaries. I will never be a party to such a program...
Last week Elections Committee No. 3, of the House, by a strict party vote upheld Mr. Chandler's claims. It declared that the returns of three election districts (in the Congressional District) should be thrown out because "so badly tainted with fraud that the truth is not deducible therefrom...
Last week, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, famed reformed Jew leader, gave the cause a fresh start by opening a Bahai conference in Manhattan. "The time is come," said he, "when religions should unite . . . The faith that is true is the faith of every man that holds it in truth and that lives it in the spirit...