Word: liar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...from abusing him indiscriminately as a "subtle propagandist" and a "credulous sentimentalist;" and from the argumentum ad hominem generally. Apart from any question of courtesy or dignity, this sort of thing is an insult to the intelligence of the University. If a man is lying to call him a liar is a waste of time which might better be devoted to establishing the truth; if he is telling the truth, it is a waste of energy. SYDNEY FAIRBANKS...
...course of the day, human affairs would be paralyzed. The only way the world can go on is on the assumption that people around us are telling the truth. And it is because of the hideous inconvenience and uncertainty he occasions that the whole world detests a liar...
...amusement part of the program will begin with an animated cartoon, "Colonel Heeza Liar," followed by a Triangle comedy entitled, "The Bathtub Pals." The feature will be a five-reel picture of Anita Stewart in "My Lady's Slipper." The University Hawaiian instrumental quartet will play several selections, and a 25-piece undergraduate orchestra, led by J. M. Parmelee '19, will furnish music during the pictures...
...interesting program will include movies and time will be given to class matters. The movies will be "Coloner, He's a Liar" "Vanderbilt Cup Race," and the Pathe Weekly showing Harvard's spring football practice. Plenty of refreshments will be served to suit the individual tastes, and the smoker will be over by ten o'clock so that the members of the Freshman teams will be able to return to their rooms early...
...olden days he used to try to kill his enemy with an axe; that failing, he invited him to dinner. Now, in athletic contests, he beats his rivals in the afternoon and then dines them in the evening; or, in the House of Commons, he shouts "traitor" and "liar" at his best friend on the opposite bench and then after the session walks out with him arm in arm. The Yale and Harvard track teams last summer experienced more than a touch of that social grace which the Englishman unites with his most hostile athletic endeavors...