Word: lies
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...GOOSE HANGS HIGH ? The younger generation gets its back up and engagingly passes the lie to much current literature...
Miss Alice Longfellow, daughter of the famed poet: "I issued a statement giving the lie to an allegation that the smithy concerning which my father once wrote was situate in Newbury, England. Said I: 'As a child I was always perfectly familiar with the smithy down the street here at the corner of Brattle and Story Streets [Cambridge, Mass.], and never had any doubt but that it was the original of the poem. My father passed this smithy every morning on his walks to the Village. He never was in England for any sufficiently long period to pass...
...proving that there's no fool like a gallant French fool. FATA MORGANA - An atmospheric, sporty Hungarian comedy in which a matron gives a youth a lesson in love -complete in one night. THE GOOSE HANGS HIGH - The younger generation gets its back up and engagingly passes the lie to much current literature...
...Republican from Hudson, Wis., spoke to his associates. "I wish to pay a compliment to the reporters of the various newspapers who do present the facts in the same news column, correctly. It takes an editorial writer, however, to exercise the imagination of a Munchausen, and these gentlemen deliberately lie, because they distort the language as it appears in the newspaper columns, and I shall expect every member of the House to bear me out in the proposition when I quote from this leading editorial...
...year. Meanwhile, estimates of the Cuban crop have gradually risen from the early figure of 3,600,000 tons to even 4,200,000 tons-thus placing producers actually holding sugar in an uncomfortable position. The principal argument in favor of holding the commodity for higher prices seems to lie in the undoubted fact that in general merchants' supplies of sugar are far below normal...