Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...path of flowers leads to glory," says Fontaine in one of his Fables. The Annual Flower Show at the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan, would seem to give the lie to this saying...
King Hussein of the Hedjaz, with-in whose realm lie the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, last week accepted the office of Calif tendered him by the Arabs of the Hedjaz, Transjordania and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. In an interview he showed himself melancholy and foreboding over the consequences of his action. Said Hussein: "I have not sought or desired the Califate. It has been thrust upon me. From everywhere they come...
Your voice is calm in a hurried and restless age. It tells us of life's abiding happiness and enduring satisfactions; that they lie not in pride of place and power, in greed of gold and vain display, but in simple and elemental things; in the love that glorifies the home; is health of body and mind; in labor that is of service to our fellowmen; and in the joy of work well done. You teach us to be honest in thought; steadfast and true; tolerant, of open mind, and just; and to be of courage and good cheer, having...
...flirt with her, but shun her as a matrimonial hazard. Repression has given her a case of aggravated amorousness. A Russian surgical instrument maker, half genius, half charlatan, who received his early training in the Chicago stockyards, guarantees to cure her with a movable rack, if she will lie strapped to it for a year while her limbs are remoulded nearer to the heart's desire. This Napoleonic upstart, imperious, wilful, has been proscribed by the British Royal College of Surgeons for-bone-setting without a degree; his string of cures being nullified in their eyes by the lack...
...short two or three years ago, he was one of the most hated men in England, Mr. Wicks declared, "but his extraordinary moral consistency has brought him rapidly to the fore to occupy the leading position in British politics today. His chief power is his internationalism, in which lies the hope of the world. Mr. MacDonald is a cultured, educated man; a man who has travelled extensively and studied personally conditions in every province in the Kingdom. His many acquaintances among the democratic elements throughout the world give him a remarkable background of experience. He will endeavor to create...