Word: liar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slain him. What possibility was there then that she could escape the law's severest penalty? Her husband was an atheist, remembered Mrs. Marshall; false-swearing by an atheist, even on a deathbed, promises no future punishment. An atheist is therefore considered more likely to be a liar than a man who believes in God. In two states, Arkansas and Maryland, there are provisions by which an atheist's testimony is non-negotiable in court; any court would be likely to recognize the logic behind the theory or to be swayed by the prejudice which exists...
...wireless resources spanning the Atlantic came into play. Twelve steamships altered or considered altering their courses for rescue purposes. In the meantime Courtney pondered the almost indefatigable jinx which has attended his flying career (TIME, July 18, 27). At length radio-operator Gilmour said he saw a ship. "Liar," remarked Courtney, near-defeatist...
...Little Liar? The case for Miss Savidge was summed by Sir Patrick Hastings: "Is she telling the truth or is she one of the most consummate little liars a court has ever seen...
...blackguard" in London, last week, by Judge Sir Maurice Hill who assessed $15,000 damages against him as the corespondent in a successful divorce suit brought by Major Cyril S. R. Hill. "Mrs. Hill," said Judge Hill (no relation), "is a woman of the lowest character and a liar, perhaps due to the influence of the corespondent...
...speculator, a certain Dr. Fred Puleston* is violently convinced of fraud. In righteous indignation he marshals evidence to prove "that bleary old Műnchausen . . . an unmitigated liar" who has "grossly slandered Livingston, Stanley, Cecil Rhodes." The slander: that Livingston married a black, that Stanley was a murderer, that Rhodes, drunk on prickly-pear brandy, had to be rescued from the crocodile. Employed for many years by the English firm (Hatton & Cookson) which sent "Horn" to Africa, Puleston declares that the recorded exploring expeditions, river charting, native battles, elephant hunts, "gorilla purveys," and rescue of a captive English girl, were...