Word: lied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became apparent that he intended not to desert his party but to criticize its policies from within. Said the Conservative Party's great idealist who may one day make a popular Prime Minister: "It is with the Great Democracies of Europe and America that our natural affinities must lie. We must stand by our conceptions of International Order, without which there can be no lasting peace. ... It is the duty of His Majesty's Government at this time to be vigilant and to be firm. The decision is made. The Government must then go ahead. I most sincerely...
...Vagabond was not getting on with his book. Perhaps lie had better take time out for a cigarette. He closed over the covers of the volume, but in doing so his eye happened to catch on the inside front page. Here was pasted a dedication notice, to the memory of some past Harvard graduate who had left money to the library. Underneath this bookplate was another notice. The Vagabond gasped as he read the following legend...
...that a round crater was formed even when the projectiles entered at a considerable angle. Close study of the Meteor Crater strata made it seem that the meteorite had come in at a low angle, perhaps no more than 30°, from the northeast, and that it should therefore lie beneath or beyond the southwest...
...what it was like than most volumes of historical inquiry. Why, asked the novelist, did stories like this one of Joseph echo from generation to generation? He answered: "Very deep is the well of the past." Recorded history, he said, goes only a little way into that well. Deeper lie myths, folk tales, legends-"pious abbreviations" of real happenings. Time wore them down to bare narratives which later generations preserved partly through tradition, partly because men found similar patterns in their own experience. And while both Joseph and His Brothers and its sequel Young Joseph contained the lifelike characterizations that...
...True Confession," which heads a satisfactory bill at the University, is the story of a girl who always says the first thing that comes into her head, in other words, an inveterate liar. It was written for Carole Lombard, who romps through it with delightful finesse. Although one lie in particular--confession to a murder she did not commit--takes up a great part of the picture, there are many, all typical of Miss Lombard's somewhat hysterical character. The ease with which she tells them makes for excellent comedy...