Word: liar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Less frankly humorous than his verse play, Cake, less grave than his contemplative Eden Tree, Guest Book nevertheless contains several sprightly amusing poems, several that strike a deep note of sadness and concern. Hospitable and urbane, Author Bynner has among his 70 guests a Communist and a patriot, a liar, a painter, a hostess, a debutante, a bachelor, maintains the same good manners, the same ironic detachment toward all. A depthless scorn is revealed only for the poetess who "would have ordered God from the front door if he had come in clothes that meant the back." Literary detectives...
Author Bynner sets the tone of his Guest Book, but in such poems as Liar and Oats he sums up complex careers and relationships in a few concise lines, drops many a casual, oldfashioned, epigrammatic observation. In Widower he finds lovely symbols and lines to express his favorite theme of loneliness...
...Franklin Roosevelt would veto it. In private conversation he had so often promised a veto, that if he did not veto it he would be "the biggest liar in the world...
President Roosevelt, he twice virtually declared, was a liar and hypocrite. Of the Banking Bill, which his foes the bankers also mortally hate and fear, Priest Coughlin roared: "In order to deceive the people of the United States, instead of driving the money changers from the temple as was promised them, the present administration in Washington is sponsoring a new banking bill popularly known as the Eccles bill . . . If you analyze this new bill, now being sponsored by Mr. Roosevelt, you will discover that it is nothing more than a marriage license between a prostitute [the Federal Reserve System...
...Norris: he is a masochist, his affairs are suspiciously vague, he is somehow under the thumb of his surly secretary. Sometimes Mr. Norris seems to be rolling in money; the next, he is in Micawberish straits. Consistently disingenuous, he is soon shown to be a clumsy but optimistic liar. But the young man swallows as much of Mr. Norris' misty explanations as he can. accompanies him on nights of pleasure, helps him out of less pleasurable days. When Mr. Norris turns Communist his young friend is delighted. But when he discovers at last that he has been made...