Word: liar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press conference was held to blurb Matusow's forthcoming autobiography, False Witness, in which he tells of being a highly successful liar while serving as a professional witness. The book will not, however, tell the whole story of Harvey Marshall Matusow...
Even as Matusow spoke, the Government was belatedly moving against him. He was ordered to appear before a federal grand jury in New York, and he was subpoenaed to testify before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. The FBI has known for years that Matusow was a squalid liar. Its failure to expose a false witness the Government had used played into the hands of the anti-anti-Communists who want the public to believe that all anti-Communist witnesses are perjurers. Even the Baltimore Sun editorialized that the Matusow case "reminds us that stool pigeons are as a class...
...unsociableness of space: in that vast hall, the play's intimate, childlike mood never quite lassoes the audience. But what was always brightest about the play-its procession of cockeyed characters through the swinging doors of a waterfront dive- still has considerable lure. Its old Kit Carsonish liar, whose opening gun is "I don't suppose you ever fell in love with a midget weighing 39 pounds," its beplumed society lady who springs to her feet when a Salvation Army hymn strikes up, its old woman jabbering rapid-fire Italian, its nervous swain constantly dropping nickels into...
...spent part of his childhood in Peru (where his mother took him to visit relatives after his journalist father died). In his teens, Paul ran away to sea and put in six years before the mast. "Oh, I was a great rascal!" he would later say, "a remarkable liar." In the early years of marriage, painting was one of several Gauguin hobbies; he also fenced and played billiards. Mette thought Paul's pictures were very pretty and perfectly respectable (at first, they were). The clash came when Paul began buying paintings by a group of eccentrics who were called...
...tongued diplomacy," cried a supporter of ex-Premier Yoshida. "To the world, Shigemitsu professes antiCommunism. At home, he talks of coexistence." Shigemitsu denied the taunt, but the opposition catcalled "Liar! Liar!" Finally, Premier Hatoyama had to put himself once more on record, this time more guardedly: "On whether I intend to recognize Red China or not, I would like to point out that there are many factors involved, and I cannot say when...