Word: munchausens
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...snipers and guttersnipers." Snipers were General Hugh Johnson and Westbrook Pegler. "While Johnson is against only those numerous public officials who are bungling affairs that he could so competently manage, Pegler is against everything and everybody according to his whim." Chief guttersniper in Mr. Ickes' category was "Mr. Munchausen," identified in advance copies of the speech as Paul Mallon, although CBS induced Mr. Ickes not to call names over the air. Several of Columnist Mallon's items about Mr. Ickes, Mr. Ickes bluntly charged, were lies. On the other hand, Columnists Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen...
...Lindbergh, has been left without leadership and is now in a condition of chaos. It is hardly necessary to deny such an obvious lie. . . . Lindbergh performed such a nonstop flight into the realm of calumny and slanderous fabrications that he at once beat all the records of Baron Munchausen. . . . For a long time he has not made any aviation records and as a flier he does not represent anything worth while. . . . The few flights which he is now making in his little plane are now performed in this country by any member of the Aviation Club, any peasant, worker...
...more effective than open condemnation. However, applied in the wrong place, as TIME did very obviously in its yarn on the use of "moteur canon" (i.e., hollow propeller shafts hurling machine gun bullets or small calibre shells) in aerial warfare, it is little more than an exhibition of Munchausen or Fibber McGee extravaganza...
Ranking radical ranter that he is, Shoemaker also has, at times, an engaging side. An artful versifier, a Shakespearean reader (with gestures), a raconteur, he can sit for hours recalling his Munchausen exploits. No sketch of him is complete without his own War story...
...descendant who tries to cure her of lying. Depraved, whining, fearful, she pushes out a great idiot face when she is cornered in a lie and baby-talks: "What did 'oo say?" When her mother finally admits to her father that before the strange child was born, Baron Munchausen had chased her across a field, Fanny pipes up: "I think he caught 'oo, mummy." As a Russian grand duchess stranded in Manhattan, she hypocritically laments: The Princess Dubinsky, Without her Kolinski, Is showing her skinski In a burlesque by Minsky...