Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amount of real truth in George Jean Nathan's whimsical article in Vanity Fair, "The American Attitude Toward England", is amazing. Mr. Nathan attempts rather successfully to prove that, sentimentally at least, the citizens of the United States are the natural enemies of England and friends of Germany. He cites boyhood memories, all attesting the benevolence of German cooks, saloon keepers and policemen--the era of the latter type being previous to the Irish invasion. The result is that one recalls the Germans as delightful people and the English as the national opponents...
...razzers. . . . We are still high and dry out here and are going to stay that way. BRUCE R. HINSON Norman, Okla. Snooks Sirs: I have noticed your interest in names which can be spelled forward and backward, and now I appeal to your fairness and squareness to print the truth about a name (my name) which can only be spelled forward, but is none the less not always appreciated at its true importance : Snook. I am constantly being laughed at because my name is Snook, and yet we are a good family with three...
With all due gratitude for Mr. Frankau's tribute the more remarkable as coming from a visiting lecturer, which genus usually excells in destructive criticism most theatregoers would question the essential truth of his remarks. Last season Miss Edua Best appearing with Cyril Maude in an Arlen concoction, "These Charming People," demonstrated to the delight of hundreds the undeniable ability of at least one English actress. Her forte was, true enough, light comedy, but it was done with much more finesse than is customary over here. But, flvolous though the type is, it is immensely entertaining. The American playgoer might...
...true that Her Majesty has received no official call to return to Rumania, but since there have been so many conflicting reports regarding the King's health she feels she must return at once in case there is any possibility of there being any truth in these reports...
...Mexico City the newspaper Excelsior retorted: "The real truth is that the Yankee Government pretends to exercise absolute dominion over all America, and views with an evil eye Mexico or any other country able to have any foreign influence weakening that of the United States...