Word: liar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain John Smith's epitaph in St. Sepulchre's Church, London, where he lies buried, gives Pocahontas' old friend the benefit of the doubt. Succeeding generations, noting the "impossible" deeds he recounted about himself, have sometimes suspected he was a liar of extraordinary feather...
...bishop called Jackson a liar, and demanded that the committee give him a public hearing. It agreed, and last week Methodist Leader Oxnam vigorously attacked the committee members face to face during six long hours of verbal combat, before hundreds of applauding fellow churchmen. The bishop said the committee methods gave rise to a "new . . . Ku-Kluxism," and flatly denied any sympathy whatsoever with Communism. He also denied belonging to a good part of a long list of front organizations about which committee members questioned...
...Post devoted a lengthy front page editorial to the Corporation statement. The Post said: "The Harvard Corporation which runs Harvard University has declared for public notice that Professor Wendell H. Furry is a liar and was guilty of grave misconduct, but that in spite of everything Harvard is going to keep him on its faculty...
...quickly recognize the officers and crew of the destroyer Dreher as combat-fiction standbys, e.g., the captain, no Queeg of the Caine, but a man who wants a taut ship; the iron-man bosun, seagoing equivalent of the hard-boiled sergeant who chews nails and spits tacks; the gabby liar who peddles cheap moonshine about his adventures with women; the aloof, intellectual poetizer...
...virtually reeled with esthetic shock when I came upon your statement . . . Such vigorous works as Robinson Jeffers' Roan Stallion and Tamar, or Conrad Aiken's Punch: The Immortal Liar, make Eliot's poetic vintage seem about as heady as a watered-down glass of school-picnic cider...