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...Fisher Baker Jr. (First National Bank), was asked for $500,000 damages by her cousin Mrs. Mary Emma Calhoun, Manhattan real estate broker. Mrs. Baker was accused of describing her cousin to others as "a narcotic addict" who "bribed doctors and nurses to give her narcotics, and was a liar and not to be trusted...
...Liar? Was Theodore Roosevelt a liar? Biographer Pringle admits that he handled the truth roughly but doubts if the President wilfully indulged in falsehoods. A form of self-hypnosis was responsible for his lapses, a kind of fooling-himself-to-believe-things-not-so. He said he was boxing champion at Harvard because he had wished so intensely for that honor. He dodged taxes between New York and Oyster Bay because he was always more or less strapped for money. He tried to bluster out the protests against the Booker T. Washington White House dinner by saying that the Negro...
Once, fiercely booed for 15 minutes, Mr. MacDonald left a Seaham platform without speaking while hundreds chorused, "You're a liar!" But more often Mac-Donald "platform magic" worked. The dignified, silver-haired Prime Minister won votes and wrung hearts by solemn sob-stuff. He dragged in his long dead wife: "In the old days, the first days, my wife and I had to pay for the postage of the Labor Party! We bought out of our own pockets-my wife and I-the very notepaper on which Labor's work was done. . . . Labor is in my blood...
Whereas, [Governor Long's] statement is not only untrue but carries the vice of a lie and the venom of a liar. . . . Therefore, beit resolved, by the Senate of Texas, the House concurring, that the . . . statement of Huey P. Long, Governor of the State of Louisiana, is a lie made out of the whole cloth, and its author is a consumate [sic] liar...
...poetry in which the intention is not so much to arouse an emotion, or to persuade of a reality, as to employ such emotion or sense of reality (tangentially struck) with the same cool detachment with which a composer employs notes or chords." Other books: Punch, the Immortal Liar, Pilgrimage of Festus, Priapus and the Pool and Other Poems, John Deth and Other Poems, Blue Voyage (a novel), Bring! Bring! (short stories...