Word: liar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbian Indian art worth as much again). Beggars revered him as a man who courteously pressed folding money into their outstretched hands. Communist leaders kept booting him out of the party for insubordination and then taking him back because he was too voluble, intense and eloquent a liar to forfeit.* Churchmen abhorred him as a relentless enemy of religion...
...Well," said his host, "I think you spent too much time describing Walter Price." (A practiced liar who went to Groton and Yale). "It seems as though he is your main character...
...rather than in a saucer. But as the hoots grew louder, friends and colleagues joined ranks around the wiry, balding professor, father of four, community pillar, model of rectitude. Summarized his faculty dean: "Everyone is entitled to his own convictions, but nobody can make me believe Guimaraes is a liar or insane...
...civil rights, etc. In the grand tradition, criticism for the slump was being hung squarely around the shoulders of the manager. There were no suggestions that he be forthwith fired. But there were plenty of jeers and birdcalls from the stands and the boxes-"lame duck," "no brains," "lousy liar." When Ike met the press last week in the White House version of a clubhouse critique, newsmen quickly zeroed in on the defeats, the slurs, the possibility of change in line-up and tactics...
Bernard Shaw is having quite a week, for he had last night three different productions on the local boards. As the fourth event of the Harvard-MIT Summer Series, Kresge Auditorium was the scene of the formal world premiere of Dear Liar, "a play for two vioces" by Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell...