Word: lied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tennyson's exact words: That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies...
Heaven opened. Arrowsmith had every facility, quiet, no interference. He had Gottlieb and one Terry Wickett, just such a lie-hunter as was Arrowsmith. He raced at his work, struck an unknown germ-eater, "Phage," and paused on the threshold of fame to establish scientific certainty. Came another blow. McGurk Institute, founded to cleanse a grubby name, could not risk loss of publicity. He was ordered to publish his find at once. He refused. A Frenchman found Phage, got the publicity. Arrowsmith was in bad odor at McGurk, even at McGurk, supposedly one of the three strongholds Science...
...lie-hunters! Gottlieb was decrepit, Leora gone. Arrowsmith tried life as the scientist husband of a rich widow. No good. Finally he buried himself in the Vermont woods, tracking down bacteriological verities with Terry Wickett. As the world saw it, he had "failed...
...Author. Sinclair Lewis - son and grandson of doctors, onetime reporter, now 40 and the Nation's semiofficial castigator, - may be somewhat rosily seen as he has projected himself in Lie-Hunter Arrowsmith. Yale made no pet of him when he matriculated from Sauk Center, Minn. ; but, after he wrote Main Street, his Yale class asked him to speak at a reunion. Lewis did speak - a brief, baleful curse upon that class...
...would have been very glad to enrol myself in the list of TIME subscribers, if it were not for the fact that every issue of the paper carries the feature heading of BRITISH COMMONWEALTH, which is such a LIE that I cannot bear to be faced with it every week for anything. Please do not think that my aversion to that terminology is actuated by any hatred of the British, or any similar tendency. No. I have no objection to the British Empire, as long as that organization remain an Empire. But the British Empire cannot be called a Commonwealth...