Word: untruths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louisville parade. The hall where the President spoke was only half-filled with curious spectators who did not grasp the significance of his speech on inland waterway development" reads your description of President Hoover's visit to Louisville in TIME for Nov. 4. ... A gross exaggeration and untruth and one for which TIME should be ashamed. . . . True the weather was inclement when the President honored Louisville with his visit-so inclement that plans formulated many days in advance were changed at the last moment. Admiring throngs lined the streets over which it was announced the President was to pass...
...public. Said he: "I ask the American people not to believe me guilty of the damnable crime [bribery] of which I am innocent." He admitted only "two grave errors:" 1) "Borrowing" $100,000 from Doheny; 2) Attempting to hide its source from the Senate investigating committee "by an untruth...
There is more than one way of telling an untruth, but perhaps the most insidious way is that of omission. "The Devil can cite Scripture to his purpose" for this very reason. A statement divorced from its context is often capable of an interpretation that is directly opposed to its real meaning...
...Significance. Not often does a first novel carry a weight of emotion that makes so fussy a critic as famed Alfred Noyes say: "It is the kind of novel that might have been written by Keats. . . ." The untruth of this statement is valuable as an indication of the flustered enthusiasm this book has caused, will cause in multitudes of unstable and sentimental readers. Yet it would be unfair to hint that the sentimentality of Dusty Answer is a false emotion. Though it may be an exaggerated one, its exaggeration is a sincere illusion, not a self-conscious parade of intensity...
Since a Cabinet Minister had uttered publicly an untruth someone had to resign. General von Seeckt called upon President von Hindenburg, handed in his resignation. Said Paul von Hindenburg to Hans von Seeckt: "I thank you for your extraordinary services to the Fatherland in war and peace...