Word: liar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...table. He warned Japan that, while Britain had no desire to pick a quarrel, she would not let her interests in the Far East be set aside. He warned the U.S. that Hitler would soon make a specious peace offer, which Britain would reject ("For sheer efficiency as a liar, Hitler stands alone in history...
...bonfire. Somebody asked Spivey if he had raped Mrs. Peacock. He said he had not seen her in five years. Somebody asked Spivey if he knew where his potato patch was, near there. When Spivey said he did not, the man said, "You're a God-damned liar" and hit him on the head with the butt of his pistol. The man swung again, missed, hit a white man beside...
...newsmen gaped, moved on to the City Hall. There, in a reception room decorated with jonquils and tulips, on a long oak table were spread calf-bound records, property deeds, Great-Grandfather Willkie's will. Their significance, according to Nazi spokesmen: they prove that Willkie is "a liar." Aschersleben's city archivist, Prussian-headed little Rector Goapka, launched into the story of his Willkie research. He made a big point of the four spellings of the name he found in church and city records: Willke, Willcke, Willeke, Willecke. "But," said he, "the name was never Willicke, as Herr...
Into the office of the London tuberculosis specialist Sir Colenso Ridgeon comes a beautiful woman (Katharine Cornell). She wants the doctor to cure her husband, a brilliant painter and incorrigible amoralist-a liar, cadger and thief in practical matters. Through some of the clankingest plot mechanics in history, Sir Colenso is forced to choose between saving the life of this caddish genius and that of a poor, upright little Government doctor. The issue is complicated by Sir Colenso's desire for the painter's wife. Finally he decides to abandon the painter-only to be spurned...
...painting of the noted Greek courtesan Phryne confounding her Athenian judges by her naked beauty, Puck's talented Gillam showed Republican Blaine standing coyly before his party leaders, his stout, bedrawered figure tattooed with his allegedly scandalous record. Democrats chanted: "Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, Continental liar from the State of Maine." Republicans got dirt in their fingernails digging up the story of Maria Halpin, a dipsomaniac widow by whom Cleveland had had an illegitimate child. Republicans intoned: "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa? Gone to the White House. Ha! Ha! Ha!" Democrats ghoulishly chiseled out the date...