Word: truths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later by facts. For instance, you say (April 28, p. 22) that King Victor Emmanuel was not wedded in Church. I can assure you that he was: the wedding took place in the Church of S. Maria degli Angeli, Oct. 24, 1896. Any common almanac would comply with this truth. Only when one is obsessed by impetuosity to forge malicious informations, he is liable to incur blindly in mistakes such as the one you have rushed into by reproducing at p. 23, May 5, a picture of former Governor of Rome, Senator Cremonesi, given as Count Costanzo Ciano, father...
...there, no lack of fire and verve. Justice Holmes, in his ninetieth year, and his seniors on the Harvard list prove again the eternal truth that age is not a matter of years and days. New York Herald Tribune...
...initials. In Paris he discovered one Rudolfo Perez y Montalbo playing a guitar on the streets. Impressed by the man's name and aspect, Grandson Millet pressed him into_ service as a connoisseur. The guitarist's job was to attest solemnly, wordily that the works of Cazeau were, in truth, the works of "that luminous master of the Barbizon school?Jean Francois Millet...
...arguments that the football stars of the universities came to either of the academies just to play football and not to enter either the Army or the Navy, and that it was unfair to their respective collegiate opponents to play former college stars against them. The Army doubted the truth of the first of these statements and resented any remarks about the proselyting of college athletes. Now the greatest star in the Army firmament proves the truth of the Navy axiom. First, by his attempted honorary resignation, and then by his requested one, Cagle has shown that he never wanted...
...HUNTSMAN IN THE SKY" is a first novel, and it is to be regretted that most critics will view it with that fact in mind. For too often prejudice will obscure critical truth when one knows that it is the author's first. Granville. Toogood has written an outstanding book, a book which most readers will find good...