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Some few days later Capt. Sorenson, appearing in the Department of Commerce investigation, said under oath that Reporter Duffy's article was false, that Reporter Duffy himself was "a dirty, rat-faced liar...
...Telegram, calling attention to this, editorially pointed the moral: "Too often the . . . honest reporter has found himself classed with the . . . wilful liar, by persons who hope to evade responsibility for statements made with the full knowledge that they were for publication, by recanting at the first sign of disfavor with their stand...
Odysseus was ten years getting home from Troy. Therefore, Homer proves him a hero of the sort that is resourceful when shipwrecked, patient when detained. But Erskine proves him a liar of the sort that is shrewd enough in pursuit of romantic adventures, and shrewder yet in making them appear less romantic than brave. Not shrewd enough however to deceive Penelope with his tale of trying for ten years to get home. "Trying, my dear man! Who kept you back?"-"Fate."-"What was her other name...
Brilliantly, passionately, yet with a keen eye for historical detail, Mr. Thaddeus presents the many-sided Voltaire, the man who walked with kings; who languished in the Bastille; who was an idol of the salons; who was a liar and forger, yet who risked his shrivelled body and his immortal soul for human liberty...
...liar!" cried a voice...