Word: munchausens
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...Frank Sullivan has reported to the New York World a Munchausen-like anecdote concerning an Egyptian who conjures with his stomach. The man in question, Mr. Hadji All, has so far limited his performances to select audiences examining him and the wonder stomach through the medium of an X-ray machine, but the time cannot be long before he appears on the stage...
James A. Frear, La Follette 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...
...Chicago, inspired a deal of derisive amusement among the "know-it-alls" when he announced a plan to take cinema pictures of tree-climbing fish in the South Sea Islands (TIME, March 3). The New York Tribune hastened to classify him with the well-known Doctor Traprock, Baron Munchausen and others of similar notoriety. But the ex-Mayor has science on his side, though his geography may not be infallible...
...ever there was a downright plea to the sympathies, the passions, the prejudices of the jury for six hours or more, you have heard it here . . . And that story about the ring. "Why, Munchausen was beaten by hundreds of miles by the man who made up that story...
Horatio Bottomley, the wicked Munchausen of British journalism, is in Wormwood Scrubbs Jail. But money he continues to make...