Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rahman Bey, fakir, recently submerged himself for an hour, asserted that he owed his life to his ability to fall into a cataleptic trance. It was magic; until the trance was at an end he did not breathe. To Fakir Bey, Harry Houdini, trickster, gave the lie, donned blue trunks, a white shirt, a luminous wrist watch, entered an airtight tin coffin equipped with a telephone and electric pushbutton, was lowered to the depth of the Shelton Hotel Pool, Manhattan...
...FOOL-F. Tennyson Jesse- Knopf ($2.50). Any lad that likes to lie at a railroad curve for the sensation of being obliterated, almost, by a rushing express train, is likely to come to no common end.* That is Tom Fould, or Tom Fool as they call him in the years that he courts high moments of danger sailing the world's seas. His first woman, and one or two afterwards, taken not lightly, give him flashes of the same gathered intensity that comes in moments of imminent destruction. For a time, convalescing from a wreck, he finds "rounded contentment...
...United States" [i. e. the U. S. loans to Britain were shot up and eaten in the "Common Cause," and "ought" (in British eyes) to be canceled at least in part by the U. S.] Straightway the U. S. Treasury Department, through Assistant Secretary Garrard Winston, gave back the lie with delicate irony to Chancellor Churchill, pointed out that almost $2,000,000,000 of the "munitions and foodstuffs" alluded to were bought by Britain as purchasing agent for her Continental Allies with sums lent them by the U. S. (Thus Britain was declared to have purchased...
...assumed the task of pinning safety pins upon stiff cloth. A ribbon was fastened to each safety pin. That made the task harder, but the little man's fingers flew. He pinned, and he pinned, faster, faster. Each pin must lie exactly straight. Each ribbon must hang just so. Faster, faster, FASTER...
...182Relaxed chuckling when Jones, admonished by the speaker, "apologized," declaring that Lady Astor had been guilty not of a "lie" but of a "terminological inexactitude...