Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once potent quartermaster general of the imperial German army: "Having been mentioned in my present husband's divorce suit last summer, having written a book about women, having delved into numerology,* I last week addressed a packed auditorium in Berlin on the subject: 'The real truth about the World War.' Said I: 'We learned that a mystic number was responsible. 1914's digits add up to 15. Fifteen means Jehovah, ergo the War was a Jewish conspiracy. The Jews organized the Sarajevo murder. Fortunately, the good old Aryan race instincts prevented the Jewish plot from...
...melodrama of miscegenation that followed the marriage of blue-blood Leonard Kip Rhinelander to mulatto Alice Jones dragged by as the Court of Appeals upheld all previous decisions denying the annulment application. Mrs. Alice Jones Rhinelander, cast off, said: "This shows that my case was founded on truth." With the judgment, her $300 a month alimony stops; she must start a separation suit to gain an allowance...
...crucified. Vexed, he spends another evening trying to capture his waking dream, to make it come true, but the trail only leads him to an impersonal female corpse in a hospital cellar. He tells his wife all about that, too. They finally agree that you cannot grasp all the truth, all the reality, of any experience, waking or dreaming. . . . People have not only patience but gratitude and admiration for Author Schnitzler's evanescent themes, because he writes, like so many cultured neurotics, beautifully...
...Joad's thesis is that we are a decadent people in the same sense that Imperial Rome was decadent. And the cause for our speedy distingretation he assigns to our tendency to pursue truth, beauty and goodness. As has been already intimated, Part One--On truth--falls utterly to uphold its share in the proof. What is said here of America applies equally to any civilized country. Constantly recurring illustrations, not New York, constitute admission of inconclusive evidence...
...Once Truth is left behind, the section on Beauty rises somewhat in tone and approaches the level on which one expects to find observations on the other fellow's habits of mind. None except the most stodgy Babbitt can do aught but cry "Hear, hear" to an accusation that "the films are the literature of America". So it must seem to one who is convinced that "America has no indigenous literature" and no writers of genius save four, E. A. Poe, Walt Whitman, Hermann Melville, and Mark Twain. The only other Americans mentioned are a few whose "goodness consists mainly...