Word: liar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest was drowned out by Hook's shout, "You are a dirty liar when you say Communists...
...Congressional Record read "goddamned liar" before the words were stricken from it, but Hook swore he had not used profanity...
Sniffs & Snarls. Boss Crump is adept at pitching epithets without catching libel suits. He had his 1,700 words of vituperation-in which the word "rat" appeared 14 times, "liar" 20 times-read aloud in both houses of the Tennessee Legislature, a cleansing process by which slander becomes legally privileged. Then he sent the whole caboodle to the Tennessean by messenger...
...Every Canadian Customs officer knows very well, deep down in his heart, that the car driver is a liar. One has only to trail a 'tourist' of this type up the street and into the nearest gas station. He collects his twelve gallons, surrenders his permit, and within 15 minutes he's heading back . . . to Detroit. This is going on not only in Windsor, but at every border-crossing point in Canada, † We're giving our gas to gyppers...
Love and the Inquisition. Pedro was redhaired, blue-eyed, broad-shouldered, hot-tempered, chivalrous, brave, a good swordsman, a bad liar, and a miser when it came to hanging on to his illusions. When Pedro came upon two ruffians in the forest attacking Catana Pérez (clad only in her shoes, stocking and a torn shift), he cut one with his whip and rode the other down with his horse, though Catana was only a tavern keeper's daughter. And without quite knowing what he was doing, he delivered himself and his family into the power...