Word: liars
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They don't all love him. An Asheville, N.C., gift-shop owner calls him "a con man with honey in his mouth." A Texas doctor denounces him as "a crook and a liar." A Wisconsin dairy farmer criticizes him for being "too fatherly...
...Dominican dictator was not very enthusiastic about the match, but he made his new son-in-law a minor envoy to Berlin and was soon convinced he had done the right thing. "He's an excellent diplomat," exclaimed papa, "because women like him and because he is a liar." Flor de Oro tired of Rubirosa in 1937, but Trujillo had found that he came in handy for many tasks, and Rubi stayed on the Dominican diplomatic payroll most of the time until El Benefactor's assassination in 1961. At its first meeting, the new government fired...
...mines to trotting tracks, ruled a vast network of railroads that spread from Ohio to the West Coast, established himself as the man who banked the robber barons, eventually scrambled to the top of a $100 million heap. Sarnoff also makes it clear, sometimes inadvertently, that Sage was a liar, a swindler, and a vivid illustration of that cliché about the desire for money being the root of all evil...
...know he's a liar and a perjurer, holding himself out to be a white man, and worse than a white nigger...
...brows, a cast in one eye, rubbery sprawling lips, and a slide-away chin. Women fell all over him, and he returned the compliment. He attacked them in private, pawed them in public, on occasion bedded as many as three a day. He was a braggart, a plagiarist, a liar and a bully. He threw coffee in Publisher Horace Liveright's face and once challenged Sinclair Lewis to a duel. Maudlin music made him teary and flattery made him fatuous. He was a skinflint who haggled over cab fares, a spendthrift who swaggered in custom suits...