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Word: liar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...milled about its halls demanded of Principal Harrower reason why their children had to leave the neighborhood to attend school, thus risking their lives in Chicago traffic thus wasting time, wearing out shoes Principal Harrower, protected by police, tried to address the irate elders was jeered, hissed, booed, called "liar,' "sneak." The parents sought an injunction to prevent Harper being a junior high school, were refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Room | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

Principal Harrower jeered, hissed, booed, called "liar," "sneak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Sep. 15, 1924 | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

...McMahan called the Senator "dirty liar"; Senator seized a chair, seemed about to fell Mr. McMahan, was over-powered and disarmed by "friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Eliminated | 9/8/1924 | See Source »

...Dirty liar!" applied to a U. S. Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Sep. 1, 1924 | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

...Among us politicians the quack and the trickster still flourish and the printed word is their most powerful weapon. Would that you (the publishers) adopt some schedule rates for such political advertising and would decline to publish the appeal of the liar and charlatan. Close your columns to the claptrap and buncombe of the politicians. Scorn our words when you know that we are uttering falsehoods, just as you scorn the dishonest advertiser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Mouthful | 5/5/1924 | See Source »

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