Word: liars
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...queer eyes belonged to Dr. Frederick A. Cook and over the coffee cups, on that morning in 1909, they began his undoing. Mr. Gibbs, convinced that Dr. Cook was a liar and that he had never reached the North Pole, wired the Daily Chronicle seven columns to that ef fect. Meanwhile, Copenhagen received Dr. Cook with cheers and medals, wined and dined him. All the world applauded. But later evidence, including Robert E. Peary's return from the North Pole with news that he had found nothing to show that Dr. Cook had been there, proved that wary Reporter...
...Russia, Germany, Austria, Turkey are no longer empires. When the ship's captain attempted to put to sea before all these changes had been satisfactorily explained, the Slavic peasants forcibly restrained him another day, some contending to the last that his answers to their questions proved him a liar or one gone...
...Sydney, Australia, came one Palmer Kent, composer, whom listeners judged-either a lucky fellow or a great liar. He had been on a walking tour in the New Hebrides, where head-hunting cannibals still abound, when a band of blackamoors, nearly nude save for weapons, surrounded him with melting eyes. Defenseless, he instinctively began to wriggle his toes, his feet, his ankles, knees, hips, shoulders, to fling his whole body about in the loose gyrations of the Charleston. So enchanted were the cannibals, he said, that they took lessons, gave him presents instead of eating...
...House Office Building ladies were present; so were preachermen. A "blue law" bill was under discussion by the House Committee on the District of Columbia. Chunky Representative Sol Bloom of New York politely insinuated that square-jawed Representative Thomas L. Blanton of Texas was a liar. Mr. Blanton, who wants to close the cinema theatres on Sunday, leaped at Mr. Bloom, who wants them open; put his Texan arm around Mr. Bloom's neck. They grappled, heaved, fell across the committee table. One L. B. Schloss joined the fray, was knocked to the floor, kicked. The Rev. Harry...
Many Chicagoans do not care who is nominated by the Republican party this month. They have agreed to hope that Mayor Dever, Democrat, will be re-elected in April. He, at least, has not called or been called a rat or a liar...