Word: liar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote Iron Ore, a newspaper in Ishpeming, Mich.: "According to Roosevelt, he is the only man who can call others liars, rascals and thieves, terms he applies to Republicans generally. . . . Roosevelt is a pretty good liar himself. . . . Roosevelt lies and curses in a most disgusting way; he gets drunk, too, and that not infrequently, and all his intimates know about it." (T. R. sued for libel, asked for nominal damages...
Still, there was something lacking. Said the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune: "The President cried 'Liar!' thirty-two times, and never mentioned the third term once...
...Stalin continued his game of seeming to keep both sides guessing. Some observers believed that it was merely to deepen the democracies' puzzlement about Russia's relations with Germany that the official Tass Agency rudely called Berlin a liar when Nazi Government quarters announced that Moscow was informed of all Axis moves. The Soviet press, including the Army organ Red Star, continued to praise the R. A. F., belittle by implication Hermann Göring's air-war machine...
Posterity will have no written record of the amazing exploits of William Sewall '97 because, as the 60-year-old adventurer explained yesterday, "If you told the story people would think you're a damned liar!" Only the animal heads in the Harvard Club of New York will remain as mute testimony of the hair breadth escapes of the big game hunter...
...again. Minister for Aircraft Production Lord Beaverbrook's Standard, in Shoe Lane just off Fleet Street, was flooded when a tank on its roof burst. Next morning the Standard carried a David Low cartoon showing Goring and Goebbels peddling a newspaper called Der Berlin Liar with headlines: "British Press Wiped Out"-and regarding with pained surprise a Cockney newsboy hawking: "Bomb severely damaged in Shoe Lane...