Word: liar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adroit emphasis and inflection Franklin Roosevelt managed to turn the words of others into words of his own. And he left no doubt that he thought some U.S. newspapers have sunk to dismal depths. Not since the famed "dunce cap" and "chronic liar" press conferences had he delivered so hard a pitch...
...Frank Dobie, Texas University's famed English professor and maverick, who will soon go to Oxford to explain American civilization, has already rendered his verdict. Said Dobie: "A man can come to Texas and without interference invite all the people he wants to join the Republican Party, the Liar's Club, the Association for the Anointment of Herbert Hoover as Prophet, almost any kind of organization except one. If the Manford Law is an index of capitalism's future policy, the people had better begin digging cellars for the revolution...
Drew Pearson, Washington Merry-Go-Rounder whose charges that the State Department is anti-Russian led the President to call him a "chronic liar," said that an Administration "Gestapo" had been tapping his wires. Government officials who had telephoned him, he declared, had since been confronted by their superiors with transcriptions of the conversations. The New York tabloid PM reported that Pearson's syndicator, United Features, had refused to allow him to reply to the President. PM published what it reported was a banned column, in which Pearson elaborated on the statements that had provoked the Presidential wrath...
...Department's attitude toward Russia, had made statements that were a lie from beginning to end, had jeopardized United Nations unity, had committed an act of bad faith toward his nation. It might as well be said once & for all, continued the President: this columnist was a chronic liar...
When a candidate for Governor of Mississippi threatened to "lick Fred Sullens, editor of the Jackson Daily Liar," Sullens Page-Oned: "If nothing less than a few buckets of blood from the veins of the editor of Mississippi's greatest newspaper will quench your thirst for human gore . . . you are cordially invited to come on and spill it if you can. Being the party threatened, the editor, under the traditional rules of the code duello, is entitled to choice of weapons, jpbj may arm himself with cow dung and shingles at the respectful distance of 40 paces, standing with...