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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayor including the mayor of Boston--who believes in the asininity that local officials cannot end racketeering in his town in either a liar or a moron," claimed Ray Sprigle, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, at last night's Law Forum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sprigle States Police Fail To Enforce Laws | 12/9/1950 | See Source »

...24th Division's Major General John Church, MacArthur said that he was recommending the 24th for a presidential citation, and added: "I have already promised wives and mothers that the boys of the 24th Division will be back by Christmas. Don't make me a liar. Get to the Yalu and I will relieve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Massive Envelopment | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...poor Bill and believe that if he had more understanding at home and his wife would stop nagging, he'd be all right; and the wife's defenders, who see what a wreck he is making of her and who are convinced that Bill is a pathological liar, a cheat, and incapable of real affection for anybody but himself." The family's chief job, Anderson suggests, is to help the alcoholic find an interest to replace the alcohol, and to enter into it with him-even if it bores them to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Dry Drunkard | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...cover story about Jacob Malik is the only one which I have read in any publication which clearly portrays how the agents of deceit from Russia conduct themselves. In other words, you come to the point and say that this current U.N. representative is nothing more than a liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1950 | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...What a Liar!" He stayed that way. This collection of letters and excerpts from his journals, printed with fragments of an autobiography and part of an unfinished book (Leo died in 1949), shows mainly how bitterly he resented it. Many of the letters are petulant complaints about Gertrude's success. "I simply cannot take Gertrude seriously as a literary phenomenon." The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas riled him especially. "God what a liar she is!" One of the last things he wrote was a memorandum about his dislike of her and all her works. In 1946, when he heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dim Brother | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

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