Word: liars
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...sinful screen career, Miss Davis has played many a fetching, high-tragedy bad girl; in Deception she is merely a hysterical bad liar. Hero Henreid is an unlovable, nitwitted neurotic. Claude Rains, as the hammy composer who keeps telling Bette off, is cast as the villain but, by default, he wins the audience's wholehearted admiration and sympathy...
...French dime novel behind footlights, Obsession tells of a coldhearted minx who marries a very jealous man while remaining the mistress of a very rich one! She is such a bad liar that the most trusting husband would be wild with suspicion in a week; her own husband has spotted his rival before all the audience has straggled in, and has murdered him long before the end. As the curtain falls, the husband is taken into custody. The wife unconcernedly lights a cigaret...
...good spellers because they aren't smart enough," volunteered twelve-year-old Contestant Nancy McDaniel last week. To prove it she pointed to her fellow finalists in the National Spelling Bee: 18 were girls, ten boys. But a few minutes later Nancy was out, for misspelling liar. About 400 words later, there were a boy and a girl left, each 13. The boy, shy and nervous, was John McKinney of Woodbine, Iowa (pop. 1,350); the girl, cool and confident, was Mary McCarthy of New York City...
...defense rested, the task of the trial commission no longer seemed simple. Yamashita's spirited defense had suddenly emphasized the lack of precedent for war crimes trials, the vagueness of the charges-violation of the rules of war. The commission had other problems. What was Yamashita-a consummate liar or a victim of circumstance? What was to be his fate? The rope or the firing squad? Prison? Freedom? Manila waited for the answer...
...hero of legendary history: he is not only death to dragons, but a first-rate harpist and singer and an ace huntsman and seaman. He is, notes the Encyclopaedia Britannica, "the Admirable Crichton of medieval romance [and] it must be regretfully admitted that he is also a most accomplished liar...