Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French, American, British and German authorities have proclaimed as a lie that paragraph in the Treaty of Versailles which holds Germany alone responsible for the War." Thus opened the preamble to a document signed last week by 1,000,000 Germans. It is a petition requesting Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann to bend every effort toward securing the establishment of an international tribunal to adjudicate War guilt...
Edward E. Jordan (motor cars) said, with his usual crispness: "I have always maintained that the solution of the European problem does not lie in a group of men sitting around a table and figuring out what somebody owes; it lies in the introduction of 2,000,000 Fords and 2,000,000 telephones to cut down the cost of transportation, break down the barriers of language, religion, custom and prejudice. ... I think the most impressive fact in the last year's experience in business is that the industry shipped over 700,000 automobiles to foreign countries...
...advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust...
...plot there is so little that the play might readily have been run as a musical comedy, with infinite gain in speed and box-office receipts. Lie follows lie in the most amazing succession, so that even the most-cynical of males would be sated, and turn trustingly to his companion. "No woman could lie like that." Yet, despite the never ending procession of lies the play palls during the second act, palls indeed until The-Shot-Outside. No audience can resist The-Shot-Outside...
...President of the U. S. Then he would appoint one William F. Zumbrunn (a man who "wines and dines" with Senators and their wives) as Ambassador to Mexico. Whereupon, Senator Watson called Senator Reed to his bedside in an Indianapolis hospital, informed him that it was all a great lie. Said the Senator from Indiana...