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...best build" or "smoothest" we can certainly do justice to the assets of our own senior class and think up some fairly conclusive titles which will open the eyes of big business to the diamonds lying rough in the graduating body. Self promotion never hurts and if "biggest liar" of Class of '37 is called into a nationally known advertising firm or if "biggest bore" is eagerly sought as a political leader or as a college instructor, Harvard may feel that she has done her share. Placed in the hands of an able publicity agent, such a scheme might...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HANDSOME IS...." | 5/19/1936 | See Source »

...truck and automobile, jammed State House corridors and the streets outside. From the Assembly floor to the galleries docilely retired all the demonstrators save five led by Ray Cooke. Authorized to state their case, Leader Cooke was promptly shushed when he cried, "I say he's a liar," at an Assemblyman who had charged the demonstrators with being "professional agitators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Jobless Invasion | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...dirty liar!" wept Clayton Clawson. "The guy who sold me that told me it was nitroglycerin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Tough Clawson | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...kept silent while the youthful crusaders monopolized front pages with a revision of U. S. history which made those elders out to have been deplorable bunglers, duped by propaganda or impelled by greed. But when ardent young Senator Nye called the Wartime President of the U. S. a liar, the pent-up wrath of Woodrow Wilson's onetime associates burst forth in dancing fury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Graveyard Parade | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

This distinction may seem technical but is none the less real. A man may make a statement which is "an unqualified lie" without the man himself being an "unqualified liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 30, 1935 | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

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