Word: liar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fast as his piano-playing won them. He yielded no quarter of fame to any of his now-famous contemporaries. "People believe Louis Armstrong originated scat [singing]," he said. "I must take that credit away from him." His blast at W. C. (St. Louis Blues) Handy as "a liar" who "cannot prove anything in music that he has created" endeared him to no one. His own flamboyant claim was that "I personally originated jazz in New Orleans...
Libel in France. When Victor Kravchenko published the bestselling story of his career as a onetime Soviet bureaucrat, I Chose Freedom, a French Communist weekly called him a "liar" and a U.S. secret agent. Kravchenko sued for libel, and in a Parisian courtroom whose atmosphere often resembled a low-comedy brawl there was, nonetheless, enacted a deadly serious debate between the ideologies of two worlds. Largely because of impressive testimony given by a number of former inmates of Russian slave-labor camps, Kravchenko won his case and token damages of 3 francs. His second book, though ineptly written and frequently...
...right, kid, you asked for it, and here it is. The ads are lying. I'm a liar. The picture stinks. You wanna know why the picture stinks? Because they took a story about a jockey by Ernie Hemingway. It was called "My Old Man," and they decided to make a picture out of it. Sure, sure, they got some good actors for it. They get Micheline Prelle, of the Rive Gauche. And Johnnie Garfield. He's a good actor, Danny. He's a great actor. And Orley Lindgren. They say he's good...
McCarthy had accused her of having been a member of 28 Communist fronts. The ex-judge, a greying and angry woman, seemed delighted at the chance to appear; having called McCarthy an "unmitigated liar," she disproved his accusations so thoroughly that the audience applauded her, and Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper apologetically said there was not "the least evidence" that she had been "in any way subversive or disloyal...
From Manhattan Dorothy Kenyon promptly blasted back at McCarthy as an "unmitigated liar," and asked the committee's permission to prove...