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...Fowlerville, Mich., portly Mrs. Stella Barnhouse was informed she had been declared "World's Best Liar" for 1936 by the Burlington (Wis.) Liars' Club, which awarded her a medal in the form of a miniature lyre. Liar Barn-house's story: To relieve its hunger, a gargantuan Michigan mosquito buzzed into a barnyard, spied a tough old mule named Maud. Halfway down the mosquito's gullet, Maud let go a fierce kick, broke the insect's neck, saved the town...
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...
...Earl Russell assured Adams that there would be no intervention, that England's policy would remain unchanged, Adams was unaware that a few hours previously Russell had proposed intervention to a cabinet which rejected his proposal. Henry Adams records that although the Minister never thought Earl Russell was a liar, he had to act as though he were...
...cocked was that of Finance Minister Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk. Replying to a speech in which British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden recently said that Germany in the period of Reparations borrowed 18 billion marks and paid less than eight billion, the Count by implication called Mr. Eden a liar. "The losses Germany suffered through tribute," roared Count Schwerin von Krosigk, "far exceeded the capital lent...
...Charles E. Coughlin (on his application of the terms "liar," "betrayer," "double-crosser" and "scab President" to Franklin Roosevelt) : I wish to close this campaign by apologizing . . .for words which ordinarily do not issue from the lips of a gentleman...