Word: untruths
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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...
...dissipate these cross-reflections, they harkened to the words of Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain: "I am tired of the palpable untruth that this Government is in Irak for the oil that British capitalists can get out of the Mosul region. If we were after oil we could have had the concession for all the oil in Mosul and concessions for anything else we liked. . . . I was approached by a Turkish representative last March with the proposition that Great Britain should have the exploitation of all the oil in the Vilayet of Mosul, provided that Turkey should be granted...
...have the mighty fallen and the inerrant promulgated untruth! So will it ever be with those who accept uncritically the offerings of the newspaper press...