Word: liar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pygmalion and The Apple Cart, and some connective matter by Mr. Kilty. Shaw's letters are as witty as his plays, and Mrs. Campbell was in every way a match for him. Their letters are full of delicate shades of feeling and redolent of two strikingly original personalities. Dear Liar may not be really a play, but it is certainly a pleasure...
...year-old brother John along, pushed him through transoms. Once he cracked a gas station, found a pistol, managed to wound himself. Four child-guidance centers in turn worked on Robert, got nowhere. After three years of this, his mother gave up, insisted he was incorrigible and a "pathological liar," should be sent to a reform school. But at Oliver Wendell Holmes Grammar School, Principal Loretta Mulcahy found Robert "sharp" and capable of learning his subjects well, thought there was hope of rehabilitating him. There may still be hope, even now, but the rehabilitation will not be accomplished...
Heirline. In Milwaukee, Jack Gasdorf, 34, accused of keeping a wife and three children in one spot, a girl friend and two children in another, explained, "I'm an expert liar," said he felt no anxieties about prison because "I always wanted a short haircut...
Khrushchev is a drunkard, a braggart, an atheist, a liar and a barbarian. Where is your sense of common decency and morality...
Louis Napoleon, himself an inveterate liar, was not told about all these girlish pranks, nor was he interested in them. For two idyllic years Miss Howard sheltered Louis in her London house, financed his exile's finaglings and plottings. When Louis Philippe was deposed and France became a republic again, Miss Howard followed her lover to Paris, backed his successful campaign to make himself President. In 1852, after "throwing everything she possessed into the fray," she heard her Louis proclaimed Emperor...