Word: liar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heard Louisiana's Long flay a Senate investigator into his State rule as a liar, scoundrel, thief and forger...
...Reichstag building when small, bespectacled, aging Socialist Paul Lobe tried to call the Reichstag Committee for Protection of Civil Rights to order as its chairman he was shoved out of the chair by six-foot Nazi Lawyer Hans Frank who shouted: "You Marxist liar! You're unfit to preside. I declare myself chairman!" As Socialist, Communist and Centrist committeemen stalked out, one of them lit a cigar, had it wrenched from his teeth by a Nazi who cried: "Show respect to the Chairman...
Balance Posnet was a horse-thief and a drunkard. Feemy Evans was a liar and a trull. Hard people, these pioneers of the good old West. Their callused souls were untouched by the points exhortations of the godly Eider panicles. Blanco Posnet and Feemy Exans were had; they forsook the straight and narrow, and travelled the primrose path to hell. They called on the devil and they sneered at God Bad Bard...
...jail. Margaret sympathized with him; but Theodore, after a long shillyshally, enlisted, muttering all the catchwords of the day. Loudmouthed, cowardly, Theodore ran away during an attack, was saved from a firing party only by a kindly doctor. With more & more to cover up, Theodore became an almost continuous liar, even to himself. He lost Margaret, went abroad for ten years, became a dilettante in the Paris literary world. At the last Author Wells shows his hero being dined by two sympathetic old ladies and lying more outrageously with every drink...
...attacks. But in October the Journal carried a bitter article about Sun Life's 72-year-old President Thomas Bassett Macaulay, in which President Macaulay was described as an Insull conspirator, likened to the late Ivar Kreuger, called "one of the world's greatest crooks, a colossal liar, and a swindler." President Macaulay sued for libel (TIME, Oct. 24). Publisher Harpell's usual lawyers would not handle the case for him. At first he harped bitterly on this handicap as he pleaded his own defense. Then a lawyer named Calizte Cormier pleaded that Publisher Harpell had done...