Word: liar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fowlerville, Mich., portly Mrs. Stella Barnhouse was informed she had been declared "World's Best Liar" for 1936 by the Burlington (Wis.) Liars' Club, which awarded her a medal in the form of a miniature lyre. Liar Barn-house's story: To relieve its hunger, a gargantuan Michigan mosquito buzzed into a barnyard, spied a tough old mule named Maud. Halfway down the mosquito's gullet, Maud let go a fierce kick, broke the insect's neck, saved the town...
...Earl Russell assured Adams that there would be no intervention, that England's policy would remain unchanged, Adams was unaware that a few hours previously Russell had proposed intervention to a cabinet which rejected his proposal. Henry Adams records that although the Minister never thought Earl Russell was a liar, he had to act as though he were...
...cocked was that of Finance Minister Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk. Replying to a speech in which British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden recently said that Germany in the period of Reparations borrowed 18 billion marks and paid less than eight billion, the Count by implication called Mr. Eden a liar. "The losses Germany suffered through tribute," roared Count Schwerin von Krosigk, "far exceeded the capital lent...
...Charles E. Coughlin (on his application of the terms "liar," "betrayer," "double-crosser" and "scab President" to Franklin Roosevelt) : I wish to close this campaign by apologizing . . .for words which ordinarily do not issue from the lips of a gentleman...
...Legionaries with overseas caps and a big U. S. flag appeared at the First Congregational Church to censor an address to its young peoples' society by Illinois' Communist Gubernatorial Candidate Samuel T. Hammersmark. Also present were some 500 Oak Park matrons & men who hissed, booed, yowled, screamed "Liar!" and "Murderer" so lustily that the Legionaries were forced to reverse their role, protect the speaker from his audience. Up stood the church's Pastor Albert Buckner Coe at meeting's end, said to Red Hammersmark: "You are to be complimented for being more of a gentleman than...