Word: liar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sooner than that Daughter Nancy decided that Author J. G. Shaw was none other than Father Bedford-Jones in a fresh disguise and that he was talking about her. Her counterblast entitled My Father Is a Liar! promptly appeared last week in the Communist magazine, New Masses...
...Thackeray-"with his warped, middle-class outlook, poor, frightened little mid-nineteenth-century Thackeray"-who gave George IV and his Brighton days their bad reputation in Victorian England. To that novelist George was everything that an English monarch should not be: a bigamist, a liar and a lecher who played practical jokes, gambled, drank heavily, and, as Prince of Wales, with an income of ?70,000, managed to accumulate ?250,000 of debts in three years. Brighton, despite its quaint, un-English charm, its surface respectability, had been the scene of his historic revels, remained so charged with memories...
...Liar!" "I said to Mr. Brewster then, in front of Dr. Gruening," snapped Witness Corcoran, " 'If, as you say, your political situation is such that you are not a free man and have to take the power companies into account . . . you know perfectly well that I can no longer trust your assurance that you will protect the Quoddy relation...
...anguished snarl pierced the caucus room. It was the voice of Ralph Brewster crying: "You're a liar...
...blackguard. Witness Yates, ousted Pearson assistant and a prime instigator of 'the investigation, produced an affidavit from an Anglican clergyman named Anson whom he described as "dean of the white ministers in the Islands." The Rev. E. G. Anson bore witness that Governor Pearson was "an awful liar, thief and hypocrite." Witness Yates also offered a letter he had received from a Roman Catholic priest named Leo St. Laurence. Wrote Father St. Laurence: ''It looks as if it is now a war, 'Pearsonites versus the Catholic Church'. . . . The Fathers have been...