Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Republican Hohenzollern? According to despatches from Berlin, the ex-Crown Prince will be a candidate for the German Presidency at the next elections, which coincide with the U. S. presidential elections. It is doubtful if there is any truth in the report, and it is certain that he will not and cannot become President...
Scopolamin (also known as hyoscin), the poisonous alkaloid anaesthetic derived from henbane, deadly nightshade and similar plants, has added another function to its established use in childbirth (TIME, May 12), if we are to believe Dr. R. E. House, of Ferris, Texas, whose paper on its value in revealing truth in criminal cases created a sensation at the meeting of the American Association of Anaesthetists, held in conjunction with the San Francisco sessions of the American Medical Association...
...world so basely consecrated to the truth, Fiction (which is the art of lying) is still at least a semi-honorable profession. It is, because it makes a puissant defense, saying: "I make a hero, and my reader imagines all my hero's virtues to himself. I make a villain and my reader estimates that he himself will avoid the deeds and dooms of villainy." And there's the kernel of the cabbage: the reader dreams himself the man whom all the story turns about. There is the power and the pleasure of the lies that we call Fiction...
...Southworth? Rosa Nouchette Carey? Charles Garvice? No. But their most recent successor in the paper-back-thriller field-the anonymous authors of The True Story Series, published by Macfadden Publications, Inc. Hail to the two-bit novel redivivus! The passage that tops this column is from The Truth About a College Girl...
...would have but little importance if the publication of them were limited to New York City, but through the Hearst newspapers they will go all over the United States and be read by some thirty million persons, of whom the vast majority are too ill-informed to suspect their truth...