Word: liar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meantime, an uncanny and still unexplained occurrence took place. Alfred Gagnon, a Rhode Island crook, known to police the nation over as a "congenital liar," announced one day that he knew the three planners of the Brink's hold-up. To Massachusetts authorities, he was still a liar. But the Rhode Island Attorney General believed his story, insisted that police here interrogate Gagnon. One of the three masterminds, Gagnon maintained, was a roadhouse proprietor named Carlton O'Brien. Massachusetts officials still scoffed at Gagnon's story. Fifty-six hours later, they found O'Brien--riddled with bullets. The other...
...less, until he learned that some people would pay a lot more. He found this out when a man from Boston asked the price of two paintings. As Cowboy-Painter Russell told it later: "He was a plumb stranger ... so I said $50. And I'm a common liar if the fellow didn't dig out $100 and hand 'em over. He thought I meant $50 apiece . . . I didn't say a word. I just bought the fellow a drink and kept the rest. He don't know to this day how bad he beat...
...newspapers that run his syndicated column, Walter Winchell has been having trouble. He is feuding with so many enemies-e.g., the New York Post ("New York Poo," "Postitute," "Compost"), Disk Jockey Barry Gray ("Borey Pink," "a disk jerk") and Columnist Leonard Lyons* ("author of the 'Liar's Den' "), that editors and readers outside Manhattan often don't know what Winchell is talking about. As a result, editors have been cutting or killing many of his columns. Last week Winchell announced a plan to stop the mayhem. He will set aside two days a week...
...statement was true enough, but hardly news; former U.S. Ambassadors in Moscow had undergone similar treatment. Furthermore, it was not in character: Kennan rarely talks this freely to newsmen. Kennan could hardly have been surprised at the Russian reaction to his remarks. Pravda promptly blasted him as an "ecstatic liar."* Kennan may have had an idea that the Kremlin would ask for his recall; although an important Communist congress was to open in Moscow this week (see FOREIGN NEWS), he did not hurry back to his post, instead went to visit his daughter in Switzerland...
Williams tried to get the Senate to pass a resolution demanding the books. Senator Scott Lucas "made a big fuss," says Williams, "and then he put into the record a letter from [Secretary of Agriculture] Brannan calling me a liar. Well, I began to wonder if I was right, to tell you the truth...