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...woman, Mary I. Bunting has been the target for a surprising and clearly undeserved amount of virulent hostility in the past year. Radcliffe students have come away from meetings with her, convinced that she is either a "liar" or an "incompetent." The CRIMSON, in a series of articles, accused her of bargaining in bad faith and making promises she couldn't keep. Old friends among alumnae have shaken their heads at her decisions and vowed never to have dealings with her again...
...more than a week, Lothrop Withington's freshmen friends had been calling him a fool, a liar and worse. Well, he could swallow a live goldfish if he wanted to, and that was all there was to it. $10 said he couldn...
Calling Stevens a liar, Miss Frick sought to enjoin further sale and publication of the book-an effort that most lawyers viewed as doomed. After all, historians have freely depicted dead persons as they pleased throughout U.S. history. All the same, Miss Frick sued under a 1944 Pennsylvania precedent defining a libel as a publication "tending either to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive." Though rare, statutes in several states make defamation of the dead a crime. The possibilities of a Frick victory alarmed historians across the country...
...something, but Joe's ambition is to be a khutmul Mao. If you must know, that's a person rich Hindus hire to lie in their beds at home while they go on holiday so the bedbugs will have somebody to bite. Joe's a terrific liar, so you never know when he's kidding around. I mean he's a madman. Joe's always horsing around doing things like converting to Mohammedanism at the lousy military school up in the goddam mountains so he can sleep with his Muslim classmate's sister...
...glanced in the year book for that class and seen such entries as: PBH, Varsity Squash, Varsity Tennis (Captain), Hasty Pudding. Probably not much more could be gleaned from the public records, but any of this at least would have rescued Tim Gallwey from being characterized as a shadowy liar...