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Word: liar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...information agents, he for the South, she for the North. The scene in which Marion Davies says "I love you so" is promptly followed by the one in which a Confederate soldier informs Gary Cooper that she is a spy. Then, true to type, he calls her "cheat" and "liar." Even so, Operator 13 remains a sumptuous melodrama, moody, sensational and elegantly trimmed. Good shot: Marion Davies weeping when she learns that the fiance of her Richmond hostess (Jean Parker) has been killed in a surprise attack for which she is responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 2, 1934 | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

...Back in Paris, he finished medical school, practiced in a slum, got mixed up in an attempted murder, and ended as the unwilling locum tenens of a lunatic asylum. Daring Author Céline makes Bardamu tell his story himself, lets him show himself a cowardly cynic, timeserver, hypocrite, liar, tacitly defies the onlooker to cast the first stone. Many a reader will find nothing handy to throw. Shocking to the Goncourt Academicians mainly for stylistic reasons (says Defender Daudet: ''It is written in Parisian colloquial speech, a very special language, superficially lazy yet fundamentally exact"). Journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seamy Side | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

...Liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 23, 1934 | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...Brown swore that Mr. Farley had described Senator Black to him as a "publicity hound." Mr. Farley swore he had done no such thing. Either the Postmaster General or the ex-Postmaster General was a liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Army's First Week | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

Frankness, a pardonable virtue, seems to be entering the world of diplomatic notes, a field long held by the flowery evasion. First Russia and Japan called each other a liar with an admirable, if startling, baldness. Now comes President Roosevelt's plain answer to a long, decorous request from the President of Haiti that the United States withdraw its fiscal control over that country. While expressing a kindly word for the record of the Haitian government, nonetheless our own F. D. could not find it in his heart to grant this request. And why not? Because, as the Transcript neatly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 12/5/1933 | See Source »

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