Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very nervous and very worried--somehow or other he knew that he'd never look well amid the mysterious implements of a boudoir table. Eau de Cologne bothered him, and eyebrow pencil embarrassed him with its frank fraudulence. And yet there he was destined to lie-surrounded by the rouge pots and the powder puffs. It was a sad fate, but it was inevitable, and Vag believed with Confucius that the inevitable must be accepted...
...into French fields. They worked as never before, but an early frost made speed imperative and lack of experienced man power was acutely felt. In many cases, partially gathered crops froze before they could be binned and much of the vintage was completely lost. Piles of rotted beets still lie along the roads of France. In Paris last week the cry "Man power on the farms in February and March for the spring sowing is as important as man power on the Maginot Line!" was raised by Parliamentary bigwigs including Senator Maurice Dormann, who demanded immediate granting of leaves...
...nine in the year of Grant's Wilderness Campaign. One of the last and most notable of her countless poems was Soldiers, Come Back Clean, published by Hearst's New York Journal in the year of the battle of Cambrai. It ran: I may lie in the mud of the trenches, I may reek with blood and mire, But I will control, by the God in my soul, The might of my man's desire...
...painted a rosy picture of war time Britain and France, turned to the "very different lot of the unfortunate neutrals. Whether on sea or on land, they are the victims upon whom Hitler's hate and spite descends. Look at the small but ancient and historic States which lie in the North, or look again at that other group of anxious people in the Balkans or in the Danube Basin. . . . Every one of them is wondering tonight which will be the next victim on whom the criminal adventurers of Berlin will cast their rending stroke [see p.31...
Asked to write a plea for Herbert Hoover's Finnish relief fund, crusty old Author Theodore Dreiser replied: "I am not just another American propaganda sucker," added: "If our papers do not lie, and they never lie, it is the Russians who seem to need help against the Finns...