Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, the Belgians had their turn. Many of them expressed the view that by "adroit denials" the British nurse might have escaped death at the hands of the Germans. It was a pretty thing to strike an "I-would-not-tell-a-lie" attitude and die for it, these Belgians remarked, and went on to say that her "noble stand for principle" was less appreciated by the Belgian parents of children who were afterward the victims of her "remarkable honesty," and that many of her accomplices would have escaped had she been willing to tell a lie...
...galleries of the world, 800 paintings of knights, beggars, saints, painters, are signed in a dark scrawl, Rembrandt f* There are 1,600 drawings, cornered with the same letters, 300 etchings. For nearly 300 years the world has been assured that these letters did not lie, that the energy which the Dutchman put into the figures on his canvas had enabled him also to produce a superhuman number of pictures. Yet there have been at times doubts cast on the genuineness of some of these. Four years ago Professor John Charles Van Dyke of the Department of Art & Archeology...
With the Civil War fading into legend, the ordinary northern U. S. citizen takes a sentimental attitude toward the South. It is the land of sleepy, gentle plantations. There Cotton is King; white men are colonels; lazy colored men lie on their backs and croon "Massa's in de col', col' groun'" up at a beautiful orange moon; and colored mammies are kissing babies & making pancakes. That conception received last week a rude jolt from Dr. Julius Klein, able chief of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. At Memphis, Mr. Klein delivered...
...printed first page stories of the hoax. Dr. Logan admitted she had ridden most of the way across in her pilot boat; averred she had done so with a purpose of confessing to warn the world that many of the recent channel swims looked "fishy." Believing that channel swimmers lie, she advocated an official board of supervision for channel swimmers; returned...
...naval officers who are studying at Harvard this year will work with the hydrophone, an instrument used for depth finding, signalling under water, the detection of objects on the ocean floor, and the transmission of speech through the sea. The radio will be the special field of some of lie men, as the primary, and often the only means of communication...