Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your opening paragraph under RELIGION is a gem this week (July 11). No denominational paper dares do what you do under that heading: tell all the truth. I wish you could double or treble the amount of space you give. Hypocrisy, cant, superstition are timid of facts. There is no fear for faith in truth...
...confounded dry. As for rattlers, they're where you find 'em. But why worry ? It's a rare thing to hear of anyone getting bit and rarer still to hear of the victim dying. Autos are far more deadly. You're a stickler for the truth, that's the why of this letter...
...told that the invading air navy was dropping poison gas bombs, flame throwers, and showers of poisoned darts. For ten minutes the vision of horror and destruction was conjured up with more and more terrifying realism. Then Station 5-CL blandly announced that there was not one word of truth in its "program," which had merely been put on "because of complaints that the usual features offered by our regular artists have been growing stereotyped and dull...
...Leaf Edition for Boston, with censored passages decorously stamped out by fig-like foliage. A likely passage for a fig leaf: "And then the new President : a little man whose fame was based upon the legend hat he had put down a strike of the Boston policemen, when the truth was that he had been hiding in his hotel room, with a black eye presented to him by the mayor of the city. His dream in life, as reported by himself, was to keep a store, and that was the measure of his mentality. He didn't know what...
...which is encouraging is that more and more a similar attitude may be seen in the Church. It is getting away from precept and code, from 'the letter which killeth to the spirit which giveth life.' It is recognizing that the only way to come at the truth of these matters is through free discussion of them. It, too, is experimenting...