Word: lied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subterfuge or bluffing he can circumvent this restriction. As Representative Bowker of Brookline said yesterday, "The use of the threat to do this if you don't is old stuff with the Governor and I hope that this specific case where he has made his bed and refuses to lie in it will make some people realize what kind of a man we have as Chief Executive". Unfortunately Mr. Bowker is too optimistic, since Mr. Curley's whole career in politics had been marred by many incidents of such nature. The unpleasant breath of scandal has touched him often...
...enjoy the tale about the young doctor who cupped the Negro wench's sternum; the anecdotes about Lorenzo ("Cosmopolite") Dow, pioneer of Southern Methodism; Mike Fink's misadventures with the Deacon's bull; the Carolina mother's advice to her departing son: "Never tell a lie, nor take what is not your own, nor sue anybody for slander or assault & battery. Always settle them cases yourself...
Slim Curtiss, with nine wins to his credit, will take the mound, while the Crimson batting punch should continue to lie in the bats of slugging first baseman Lupe Lupion and outfielder Bobby Gannett...
...rival any in the country, the Chemistry Department offers a worthwhile field of study for all those who have a yen for science. But while the field as a whole opens many avenues of future work, the Division is weakest in its elementary preparation. The Department's principal sins lie in its presentation of basic subjects and in its failure to correlate adequately the early material studied...
...Cairo the body of Fuad went on a gun carriage, without women or flowers, from Abdin Palace to the Mosque of Er-Rifái on Citadel Hill where lie his dynastic ancestors. As the coffin reached the Mosque, soldiers cut the throats of seven live bulls lying shackled on the pavement. After the simple funeral exuberant Egyptians poured through the streets of Cairo shouting, "Long live Farouk, King of Egypt and the Sudan...