Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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December, January, February, March. A thousand golf courses lie in expensive desuetude. Eighteen thousand fairways, as many close-clipped greens, countless traps and bunkers are sheathed with ice and snow. Investments totaling $180,000,000 (interest at 6%, 120 days, $3,600,000) yield no return save wistful hopes for an early spring. Two hundred thousand livers, in torsos bound to northern swivel chairs, become torpid, cause unfortunate changes in blood. Club dues continue. Last week four men set out over the difficult Mayfield course, scene of many championships, near Cleveland. A blizzard had just passed that way. Yet three...
...laigs on his right side are longer than the ones on his left side, so he kin stand straight as he goes around the hill feedin'. He kin only go 'round that one way, o' course, an' when he gets ready to go to bed he has to lie down an' crawl into his hole...
...lie," cried Lightweight Glass as he doubled up one fist, grabbed Middleweight Wheeler by the arm. A wary secretary leaped between them; Senators rushed up to pacify. Mr. Glass, shouting for battle, was thrust into the cloakroom. . . . The tumult died gradually; the Senate went back to business. Both of these thwarted fisticuffers were Democrats...
When President Charles Edwin Mitchell of the National City Bank stated a month ago that his was the largest banking institution in the U. S., President Haley Fiske of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., pushed no buttons, hailed no secretaries to give President Mitchell the lie, for President Mitchell was nicely accurate. His is the largest banking institution in the U. S.-assets $1,394,389,890. But it is not the largest financial institution, President Fiske knew. But he would not spoil President Mitchell's day of publicity. He would wait until the annual meeting of the Metropolitan...
...lie, you villain! You know you lie!" (This he hurled at William Cullen Bryant in capital letters on a Tribune page. The author of Thanatopsis nearly choked with rage...