Word: lied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whispers down a well About the goods lie has to sell...
Nazimova's knowledge of Ibsen is very great. To her, his plays are of just as much force now as ever, "There is still a great deal of hypocrisy in the world," she said. "I do not lie, for it does me no good, but merely confuses me. I lied like all children, but when I got older, I saw the worthlessness of lying. People hide their thoughts today just as in "Ghosts" because of a sense of duty and false pride. Ibsen saw this miserable state and shocked people with his writings, but the mistakes of a half century...
...Laboratory, in the entrance hall. Cost: $75,000. Happy Dr. Kapitza went in as director, started investigating the magnetic resistance of substances at low temperatures. At three degrees above Absolute Zero, he learned, the resistance of bismuth was increased 2,000 times. But much more important finds seemed to lie just ahead...
...position. He is obviously a man of the greatest business ability and acumen. . . . For him there is obviously only one thing that matters-the Chrysler Corp. Where other interests are concerned, he can be ruthless and unscrupulous. This case shows without question that he has not hesitated to lie in what he considers to be the interests of the corporation. Some of his evidence was frankly reconstructed. I am satisfied there were times when he was saying what he knew to be untrue. . . . Continually he was harping on the friendship felt for the plaintiff. . . . 'Friendship' is a very...
...Split and visit, en route to Athens, his cousin, the Regent of Yugoslavia, Prince Paul. Nervously the British Foreign Office hinted to George II that there was no need to heighten the British-Italian tension by making an issue of visiting a country where his parents' bodies lie. Dictator Kondylis had naturally assumed that his King would communicate with Greece only through the Greek Minister to Great Britain. He discovered to his chagrin that George II was exchanging cables privately with the head of another group of Greek Royalists who want parliamentary government instead of Kondylis' Dictatorship. They...