Word: liar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People knew better in the seventeenth century. The testimony of Titus Oates, religious turncoat, political renegade, all-but felon and a confirmed liar was accepted by the government of England as sufficient to send scores of persons to execution and imprisonment. He was a witness worth having. One on Whom legislatures could rely. And besides, how much more conducive to unbiased statements were the howling streets of London and the death-fires of Peopes in effigy than the stultified academic stillness of Langdell Hall...
...Paris," he said, "a few hundred years ago." He was a genial liar. There was a pause. He broke it quietly...
Luckily it is possible to be businesslike even with an idiot and a liar, so we asked him his name...
...unless the Nazarene were a wonderful Messenger sent especially to save mankind. It is eminently a sans book--a book in which such a statement as this, for instance, may be found: "Religion has no quarrel with ascertained knowledge. To say that it has is to make God a liar--which many pietists are now attempting to do, in a strange and profoundly irreligious confidence that so they serve him to good purpose...
...Managers Club in Wellesley Hills the Dramatic Club is giving its last performance before vacation of the "Liar." By special permission the "9.30 rule" for dances for Wellesley girls will be waived, so that dancing with music by Moynahan's Orchestra will last until last until twelve...