Word: truths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more likely that Professor Murdock will concern himself with the later years of Mark Twain's life, for post mortem critics have discovered the many bitter pills under his palatable coating of gentle wit. For Clemens was the first American to discover that Uncle Sam would swallow an unpleasant truth if sufficiently sugared. Will Rogers has followed somewhat haltingly in his train. Why not go back to the original...
From London this week by transoceanic telephone, Charles Gates Dawes, Chicago citizen, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was ready to send a five-minute speech to a Chicago Better Business Bureau dinner "to establish the truth about the city as a good place to live and do business...
...hospital, a newsman to the last, Editor Birdsall called for his star reporter, gave instruction for his own death story. "Don't get scooped," he said at the end. "Tell the story impartially. Tell the truth and fear nothing...
...mysterious business scheme. But a pair of jealous wives back in New Jersey contrive to make it appear that Mrs. Elliott started the fire herself. Criminal proceedings are instituted. Not until the just incendiary has occasioned two more blazes, in the homes of the mean matrons, does the truth become apparent...
...Poet Edith Sitwell of Poet Pope: "I may say, with the deepest humility, what Pope is reputed to have said of Dryden: 'Had I been born early enough, I should have known and loved him. . . . His principal fault was that he suffered from a constitutional inhibition against speaking the truth, save on occasions when, if we except the esthetic point of view, the truth would have been better left unspoken. But I have so often found both these faults in myself, that I do not dare to blame them...