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Second-best whopper came from Liar Roman Links of San Francisco: Taking advantage of an impenetrable San Francisco fog, Liar Links had ingeniously sprayed the fog with black ink, hacked it up, sold it for coal...
...digressions, the point of view is the eye of a fox, a fox traced from his birth to the last hunt in a country where fox hunting is life. This thread of unity is broken only by several brief and splendidly executed vignettes of South Carolina plantation life, cockfighting, whopper-telling, and a few poignant sequences depicting with brave objectivity the final breakdown of the old plantation system...
...Mark Sullivan's living-room bookcase now stands a foot-high memento of one such trip-an inscribed photograph of President Hoover happily hauling in a whopper (see cut, p. 41). But his relations with Herbert Hocver as President are not yet history to Mark Sullivan, and he will discuss them only casually...
...graph or chart better reflects the success of the farm year than the receipts and attendance figures at State Fairs. What with government bounties and higher agricultural prices, last year was a whopper, best since Depression. Attendance records were well over the 1931-33 figure and, more significantly, carnival show operators reported business increases ranging from 12% at the Illinois Fair to 75% at the Colorado Fair...
...been called 47 different varieties of undesirable persons. Now let's have a standing vote-have I or have I not any sex appeal?" - Whopper-Teller Joan Lowell (Cradle of the Deep) before the St. Louis Rotary Club...