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Word: liar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...built himself a $100,000 stone home with turrets, porte-cochère and all conveniences. This established business Samuel Hopkins Adams wrecked for him by the "Great American Fraud" articles in Collier's of 1905-07. Exposer Adams called Quack Coffee "an Eminent Thief and Pre-eminent Liar." He was not refuted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Quackery | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...Adorable Liar-A romantic girl almost cries "Wolf!" once too often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: In Manhattan | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...Adorable Liar. A delicate mechanism is the young girl of romantic hallucinations. Only a kindly sheriff and a sensitive audience can really understand. When she stirs a mob to a manhunt, excites even domestic Aunt Josephine to the point of exclaiming, "I'd rather lynch than lunch," it takes all the sensible characters in the play to straighten out the situation. Suspense attains impressive proportions as bloodhounds draw near Karrie's bedroom where a knight errant is being irreproachably entertained. Unlike most other current comedies, this one strives to root its action in human nature rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 13, 1926 | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

...liberty to fight Eugene Tunney in New York in September? Last week the New York State Athletic Commission restored Dempsey to good standing. Promoter "Tex" Rickard ordered a printer to begin making tickets for the fight (top price $27.50). Patrick Mullins, meeting Fighter Dempsey, called him a liar, a cheat, offered to fight him. A humorous spectator, as he helped to pinion the spindle arms of Manager Mullins, asked loudly that Mr. Mullins be arrested on a charge of attempted suicide. Then the license committee refused Fighter Dempsey a license. Said "Tex" Rickard: "Dempsey and Tunney will fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fight | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

Secretary Mellon of the U. S. Treasury and Chancellor Churchill of the British Exchequer came as near as statesmen ever do to calling one another "Liar!" last week. The Secretary was vacationing on the continent. The Chancellor was busy at London. Neither was within earshot of the other, but, through a series of suave but venomously couched official statements, they exchanged compliments with rough-and-tumble intent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Churchill v. Mellon | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

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