Word: liar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find any slums which Lord Astor owns." She sard she did not believe in class consciousness and knew enough of human nature to know that there was greed, jealousy, immorality and selfishness among all. ... "If you go around the world thinking everybody is greedy and a liar, look into your own heart first." Later on she remarked that "they (the Labor Party) say: 'Tax the rich.' Well, the rich are being taxed, alive and dead, and it's quite right. One reason why death duties are better than a capital levy is that all the millionaires...
...Club has announced that it will present again this year an Old English miracle play. It will be produced, as last year, before the Cathedral background of the Germanic Museum. Performances will be given on Tuesday, December 19 and will be open only to persons holding tickets to the "Liar" at its various presentations...
Because of the small size of the room in which the play is to be presented, two performances will be necessary on both evenings, the first at 7.30 and the second at 9 o'clock. Purchasers of tickets for the "Liar" will be admitted free to any one of the four performances...
...made himself a list of virtues which he trotted inside like a grey nag in a paddock". He addresses the shade of Crevecoeur with this wagging finger: "Hector St. John, you have lied to me. You lied even more scurrilously to yourself. Hector St. John, you are an emotional liar". Fenimore Cooper felt himself superior to the bourgoise but would not admit it, and therefore lied. "The blue-eyed darling Nathaniel (Hawthorne) knew disagreeable things in his inner soul. He was careful to send them out in disguise". And so the same through Dana, Melville and Whitman. "Always the same...
...designs for this year's production have swung from ultra modern impressionism to the stylized simplicity of the 18th century. Instead of interpreting the play, the scenery for "The Liar" will serve as a harmonious, but conventional, 'background, for the action...