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Word: liar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Interior in the Károlyi Government after World War I (no kin to exiled Premier Ferenc Nagy), said: "A few days ago when [Dezsö] Sulyok, head of our party, said in Parliament there was no freedom of speech in Hungary today, the Communists called him a liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Munk | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...Questions? First off, he wanted the committee to know that "Ed Terry, who has been so free with his wild, hazy, vicious and traitorous hallucinations" was nothing but a "modern Benedict Arnold" and a "contemptible, pusillanimous, limicolous"* liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Cougar in the Caucus Room | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

Calling Gandy a "damn liar," Collins rushed. He upset the witness chair. Gandy sprawled on the floor and Collins began pounding and kicking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bilbo Hearing Turns into Brawl; Railroad Wreck Is Fatal to 18; Ministers Approve Disarmament | 12/14/1946 | See Source »

...sinful screen career, Miss Davis has played many a fetching, high-tragedy bad girl; in Deception she is merely a hysterical bad liar. Hero Henreid is an unlovable, nitwitted neurotic. Claude Rains, as the hammy composer who keeps telling Bette off, is cast as the villain but, by default, he wins the audience's wholehearted admiration and sympathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Nov. 4, 1946 | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...French dime novel behind footlights, Obsession tells of a coldhearted minx who marries a very jealous man while remaining the mistress of a very rich one! She is such a bad liar that the most trusting husband would be wild with suspicion in a week; her own husband has spotted his rival before all the audience has straggled in, and has murdered him long before the end. As the curtain falls, the husband is taken into custody. The wife unconcernedly lights a cigaret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Play in Manhattan, Oct. 14, 1946 | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

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