Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...official reports were received. From Shanghai came indirect information of the disaster, and disaster was the one sure truth. A quake of unparalleled severity, fire, tidal waves, famine, explosives, hundreds of thousands of houses wrecked, hundreds of thousands of people killed?fact and fiction were woven in a horrible fabric of destruction and death...
...soldier bonus is now, in truth, something more than a likelihood. But if Secretary Mellon is right (and there seems to be much well founded opinion that he is), to reduce the surtaxes would be the best possible way of preparing for a bonus. He holds simply that to burden the rich beyond a certain point is also to burden the poor. Nevertheless, the insurgents in Congress demand that if there be a revision of income surtaxes it be upward instead of down, with excess profits taxes restored. They charge Secretary Mellon with favoritism towards the wealthy. It is probably...
...bewildered and shocked as an innocent goldfish in a bowl of curacoa. He failed to enjoy the delicate odors of their elegant decadence, and fled into marriage with Alice Blake, whose idea of Heaven was a brand-new Park Avenue apartment. But on his honeymoon he discovered the horrible truth. Father hadn't really wanted him to be charmingly wicked but to disgust him with the pleasant sins of life by throwing them at his head?a plot of which Alice had been cognizant from the first. The honest people were rogues, the scandalous ones merely natural? so he promptly...
...granary of Europe, and even Bolshevism has not availed to prevent a considerable recovery in wheat production from post-War conditions. There is, of course, an element of propaganda in many of the current stories of huge Russian stocks of wheat, but these have a substratum of truth...
...else but attend, by special request, the leading medical and surgical meetings of America and Great Britain, receiving enthusiastic ovations at every turn. Many an older man might be forgiven if such adulation went to his head, but not so Banting, who remains the same modest young seeker after truth...