Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their Majesties' present Afric tour was preluded when they left Antwerp some weeks ago on the steamer Thysville, but began in earnest as they landed at Boma, in the mouth of Mother Congo. The big black toe of Congoland was their objective-namely the city of Elizabethville, which lies 900 miles inland, at the very toe and tip of the Belgian Congo, just where it touches Great Britain's colony of Northern Rhodesia (so named after its exploiter, Cecil John Rhodes). Between Elizabethville and Port Franc-qui (named after the rehabilitator of Belgium's currency, former Finance...
...possible that Thomas Whelpley experienced the episodes which he described. But to many a newspaperman it seemed clear that in the present debauch of "ghostwriting" a depraved press had gone so far as to persuade a preacher to join the ranks of sporting characters and society women who lie for money...
Should not lie down to rest with...
Donald G. Swenson, Cornell University graduate, sailing on the lie de France, planned an unusual itinerary. Two days in the ship's engine room, four days in the dining room and steward's pantry, several weeks in the Hotel Ritz at Paris, more weeks at other famed European hotels, will complete Student Swenson's postgraduate course in hotel management. In the autumn, Manhattan's Hotel Astor will benefit by his experience...
...grilling continued, Inspector Collins was caught in one palpable lie, and appeared to arouse little credulity for certain of his statements. When some 2,000 pages of testimony had been taken from numerous witnesses, the case of Scotland Yard was summed by Sir Henry Honywood Curtis-Bennett: "I do not want it supposed that the police have done anything of which they are ashamed. ... If you impute bad faith to these officers of Scotland Yard, everything becomes possible. But if you assume that there are at Scotland Yard certain traditions of honor not likely to be broken, then other matters...