Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of these two gentlemen exists solely by reason of the excessive sleuthly caution of Sleuth Evans of the Truth and Justice Private Enquiry Co., New York. Having smartly overheard the man with the scar mention to the steamship agent his cabin number, he smartly withdrew, lest he appear to be what he was, a sleuth. By his very caution he missed the fact that cabin number 136 was being surrendered, not engaged...
...there is no sin in the communication of truth in this way. Where the fact, however probable, still waits the confirmation of circumstance, to publish it abroad was impolitic, but that charge is the heaviest than can be made against the informant. The incident, has, however, a larger significance...
...leave, and in justice to the fine body of over 1,200 American men and women who served in my department, I am compelled to say to Mr. Scott that his statement that "The Y. M. C. A. did not practice giving away anything"' is not the truth...
...conversation turned to the talking pictures, whereupon Miss Cowl said: "It is a purely economic truth that the talking movies will replace the legitimate drama inside of ten years. A theatrical manager is forced to spend between fifty and eighty thousand dollars on a production, can show it in only one city at a time, and then must wait several months before his returns come in. But a motion picture producer is able to make a film and a sound record and to distribute the show for presentation in 70 cities at the same time...
Chesterton ever a favorite, more than holds his own in this book rich in good sense, wit and plain cheerful truth. It overflows with the exuberance of mental energy...