Word: fibbing
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...made no criticism of the efficiently planned interior (which provides 60 miles of shelves, air conditioning, 665 soundproofed cubicles for individual study). Lescaze's point was simply that from the outside the new library looked like a vast stone what-is-it-a sentimental fib...
...alleged discovery of the Berlin Museum collections in a German salt mine [TIME, March 29] is nothing more than a reporter's fib. No American lieutenant colonel ever "stumbled on the treasure." One of the curators of the Berlin Museums had been commissioned by me to accompany the transport...
...Women's Army Auxiliary Corps had openings for 450 officers. On the first day, bemused Army recruiting officers gave out 13,208 long, pink application blanks, explained 13,208 times that an applicant must be between her 21st and 50th birthdays* (no, she must not fib about her age), must be between five and six feet tall, must weigh between 105 and 200 Lb., must have a high-school education...
...said yes, it would then become the official representative of all Russians in France-including the gentry of the Communist Third International. So the State Department thought up a pretty fib: the Admiral has enough to do tending to British troubles and his own. Shrugging the snub off with no comment, Russia turned to talk Turkey into...
...last moment, Prince Friedrich zu Wied, an ardent German Nazi who was to have acted as one of the bridegroom's witnesses, failed to come to The Hague, giving the excuse of "illness" which was known to be a fib. This so incensed Queen Wilhelmina that Her Majesty named to act as a witness in his place Professor Jan Huizinga, a Dutch writer of tart anti-Nazi tracts, under whom the Crown Princess once studied history. German correspondents who had come to cover the wedding promptly left The Hague in a huff, all except...