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Word: liar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Pole. As soon as the letters hit the tabloids some of the labeled ladies set up a wail. "If he means me, he's a liar," said Mrs. Richard Durant in Honolulu, "and I'll sue him from here to the North Pole." In Hollywood Mrs. Robert Howard (Actress Andrea Leeds) was' wide-eyed. "How could anyone think he could mean me?" she asked. "After all, there are lots of Mrs. Robert Howards . . . When my darling husband read the papers he said to me, 'But I didn't know you were a Democrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Letters | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...public, giving them all sides of the question." When more than 70 people died in a hotel fire and the other papers called it an unavoidable tragedy, the Journal said the hotel was a "known firetrap" and denounced its owners for "greed" and "criminal negligence." The words "liar," "jackass" and "public stench" were familiar epithets in the Journal. By 1915, Lute Nieman was describing Germany as an international menace and urging preparedness for war. In Milwaukee, where German was a second language to thousands of families, the paper was denounced and threatened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Fair Lady of Milwaukee | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...white-haired lawyer from Wall Street sat in a straw hut at Panmunjom last week, while Chinese and North Korean Communists on the other side of the table paid him their respects. "Warmonger! Liar! Rogue! Slicker!" they cried. "You are bloody-handed, deceitful, stupid. We must warn you to behave!" The American leaned back and laughed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: The Wall Street Lawyer | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

Friar: You're a liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Flying Friars | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Wagle, 31, was swamped with calls after he put ads in the Sun and the News: UNDEPENDABLE, SLOPPY, LIAR, CHEAT, DRUNKARD, ALLERGIC TO WORK; NEED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1953 | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

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