Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of its discovery, as told by Admiral Snow, is a record of a quarter-century's search for truth in regard to the famous battle of the Constitution and the Guerriere. He learned from an old newspaper clipping some years ago that the bell of the Guerriere was supposed to be still in existence somewhere in New England, and while hunting for the elusive bell he came across an unpublished manuscript giving a complete history of "Old Ironsides." In a footnote to this manuscript the author mentioned a hitherto unknown work, "Scenes in the Last War," by Moses Smith...
...What I said in that article was the plain, unvarnished, God's truth and I am going to stand back of it to the last spar. The truth is that they are spending money like hell and getting little...
...Peninsula. There is no moral pointed, except perhaps that love sometimes dies young and for no reason. Leslie Crosbie was not a wholly vicious woman. Throughout the story, which ends in her confession that she shot her lover Hammond because he was living with a Chinese woman, she strangles truth lest her husband find out her guilt and the discovery break his heart. After the first few moments her every move is to spare from sorrow this faithful husband, whom she does not love. Truth breaks her strangle hold in the tearstains of a tense last act. The earlier acts...
...delegated to the parents of the potential applicant. He then goes on to show by means of very pertinent and quite informal examples of individual cases, the misfortune of social maladjustment in college resulting from the attitude of parents who either can not or will not recognize the bare truth--that Johnny's temperament is not adaptable to the life of a higher educational institution...
...from these more or less accurate pieces of theatrical realism, which picture the scenes beyond the wings in more truth than has hitherto been their portraiture, to the flood of circus movies which burst upon the movie-going public of two or three years ago. Almost impossible it is to believe that the cinema would ever see its ideas adopted by the stage, but that is precisely what has happened...