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Word: liar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Murray is a liar to the best of my knowledge and belief and always has been," cracked Steelman Girdler. "Senator Guffey doesn't know what he's talking about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Steel Front | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

...that's a rumor, that's a lie and whoever told you that is a liar!" shouted Mr. Girdler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Steel Front | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

...makes little difference whether the editor writes about mince pies or big politics. "Public opinion is not molded by editors." (Editor White figured that out before the election revelations of 1936.) And an editor with no inconsistencies is either a stuffed-shirt or a liar. In current footnotes he points out some of his own. He thinks he used to be too noisy boosting the wonders of Emporia and Kansas. He is "ashamed" that he called Bryan "a shallow fellow," and Socialist Eugene V. Debs "a charlatan," blushes over his flag-waving editorials during the Spanish-American and World Wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Country Editor | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Second-best whopper came from Liar Roman Links of San Francisco: Taking advantage of an impenetrable San Francisco fog, Liar Links had ingeniously sprayed the fog with black ink, hacked it up, sold it for coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

Third-best liar was Mrs. C. B. Forman of Attalla, Ala. Her tall one: A whirling cyclone blew the knot out of an Alabaman's four-in-hand tie, whipped the tie around a greeting card and Christmas package which it delivered to the Alabaman's cousin in the next county...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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