Word: truth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does not appear as if any of the accusers have paused long enough to examine the real substance of the situation which they are viewing with alarm. After all, what the programs basically purported to dispense is entertainment-and free entertainment at that. We do not expect the gospel truth every time we turn on our sets...
Pigeons are pigeons, and their affinity for public statues is well-known to city dwellers. The Times of London took it upon itself to survey some of the city's monumental figures and their various states of inundation. William Ewart Gladstone: "The melancholy truth is that [he] does not stand close scrutiny these days. His bared head has been made indecently white by the birds of the Strand." Booze-hating Sir Wilfrid Lawson: "The pigeons have dealt most unkindly [with him]." Poet Robert Burns: "[His] slight defacement merely has the effect of giving him a tearful left...
...isolated; both NBC and CBS, all quiz shows in general, and hundreds of individuals were deeply involved. A more disturbing note on U.S. morals, 1959: of 150 quiz witnesses who appeared before the New York County grand jury and swore before God (or on their affirmations) to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, no less than 100, said District Attorney Frank Hogan, had lied, or to put it in legal language, perjured themselves...
...think you have a great future ahead of you. God bless you." Only New York's Republican Steven B. Derounian (Nassau County) shattered the love feast. "I don't think," he said coldly, "that an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for telling the truth...
...humorist," as all the advertisements say, and even if he isn't--much of his charm rests on an especially endowed talent for spinning the old Western tall tale. Sometimes the story-teller, without cracking a smile, is able to convince his victim that his whole tale is gospel truth and is able to use this tale for all sorts of devious ends. But the comic aspect lies chiefly in the exaggerated proportions of the tale itself...