Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...creep on while miserable coat-wraped figures stir uneasily in their seats or mumble drousily, and finally to be set out into the smoky chillness of South Station, is almost enough to banish all thoughts of further vagabonding for as much as a week at least. And, if the truth must out, little would have been seen of the Student Vagabond--who feels at the moment like the proverbial hedgehog when he sees his shadow on February 22--if it were not for the fact that in Symphony Hall at 3.15 o'clock this afternoon M. Serge Koussevitsky will present...
...Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons; "There are times when he seems to be a prophet coming with a message hot from Sinai, and there are times when he suggests that Alice has wandered, round-eyed and innocent, into the Wonderland of Westminster. . . . The truth is that Mr. Baldwin is unintelligible to the politician because he is the least politically minded person who has ever reached great office. . . . Like Diocletian, he would be happier among his cabbages than in Parliament...
...Duluth-Superior and Two Harbors tonnage 41,380,931. Incidentally, did you know that Duluth-Superior port is the second largest in tonnage in the United States, exceeded only by New York? See recent Government Report, "Insurance lapsed with the first week of the month." A half truth for while policies expired at midnight on Nov. 30, they were extended for five days, then four days, then three days so it does not lapse until midnight of Dec. 12. All ships leaving port prior to the end of the insurable period are covered to the end of the trip, hence...
...difficult it is to arrive at the truth of this hotly contested point may be seen upon scrutinizing the "unanswerable" statement of the encyclical that at her richest the Roman Catholic Church of Mexico never collected "a donation of even as much as one peso from each member of the flock per year." A Mexican would point out that "the flock" includes in Roman Catholic computation hundreds of thousands of peasants who have only the vaguest religious concepts, and habitually confuse the Trinity with the native gods of old Mexico. Should "the flock" be pruned of all these semi-pagans...
...bare fact that in this highest of inellectual sports an attempt has been made toward the meeting of while and colored on an equal footing, is highly creditable. There has been a great deal of loose talk and writing upon the intelligence of the negro, twisted from the truth by race prejudice and passion. Had the scene of this debate been laid further south anything from a race riot down might well have taken place, such, is the strength of tradition, no matter how illogical or untested it may be Oxford, by its meeting with Lincoln, has broken down...