Word: honest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After its blithe trip into musical entertainment, the Harvard Dramatic Club faces the necessity of immediately reiterating its policy of producing honest dramas heretofore unseen in America, and wisely choses a little known play by a well-known playwright for its fall production. Milne is safe; he raises no over-serious moral issues--although it is hoped that "Success" may drive a few additional nails into the coffin of American Babbitry...
Contrasted with Vance and his native thirst for literature are Halo and Lewis Tarrant, products of the civilized and cosmopolitan world which Mrs. Wharton knows and likes the best. But in this story she has given her favorites the meagerer parts. Vance's honest bluntness is thrown into even bolder relief by their futile sophistication, their self-deluding cleverness...
Nothing which anyone could say in favor of enforcing the prohibitory law could possibly please the fanatical wets. Reasonable people, wets and drys alike, must approve some parts of President Hoover's message which refer to that subject. Wets cannot honestly deny his first statement, namely that the first duty of the President under his oath of office is to secure the enforcement of the laws, nor his second, namely that the enforcement of the laws enacted to give effect to the eighteenth amendment is far from satisfactory. Beyond that there may be honest differences of opinion between wets...
Seventh, I have never heard a wet who was willing to discuss the question: Would prohibition be a good thing, economically and morally, for the country if it were well enforced? That, after all, is the real question. Why not consider it in an honest and scientific spirit? A good beginning may be made by reading Sir Josiah Stamp's address before the British Society for the Study of Inebriety on October...
...victim of political campaigns to elect honest Democrats by proving how dishonest Republicans were...