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Then came The Laughing Lady, Ethel Barrymore's comedy of epigrammatic manners. The impulse at the end of that entertaining series of pruderies was simply to call the author a liar and go home in disgust-or else not to believe that it was over at all. But even if you had thought that that was the end of all things for the heroine's decorous amour, you would not have been thrilled at her renunciation. You could have cried about...
...unfortunate position of not knowing what she wants and being unhappy until she gets it. The last two days have seen one of the stormiest sessions of the Dail Eireann so far--a perfect maze of charges and counter charges from Griffith and De Valera intermixed with epithets of "liar" and "gunman", until both sides finally agreed to publish the documents of the London conference,--"before the elections so that no one is fooled" as De Valera expressed...
...without pause; and the greatest thrill of all is to know that one's name is in every newspaper and on every lip. No less than eight people, for example, have confessed in turn to the murder of the banker Elwell, and each in turn has been proved a liar after a day or two of dazzling front page existence. Is it any wonder that serious people advocate a jail sentence for false confessions which 'put the police to so much trouble for nothing...
...Evil, then, is a false belief. For every fact one may suppose its opposite lie. The sum of evil is the lie about God, universal good. This lie ceases to have recognition or place when the truth is realized. Hence Jesus, calling evil a liar, pointed out liberation, saying, 'Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free'. This brief statement completely summarizes Christian Science practice and is the law directing all human progress...
...from abusing him indiscriminately as a "subtle propagandist" and a "credulous sentimentalist;" and from the argumentum ad hominem generally. Apart from any question of courtesy or dignity, this sort of thing is an insult to the intelligence of the University. If a man is lying to call him a liar is a waste of time which might better be devoted to establishing the truth; if he is telling the truth, it is a waste of energy. SYDNEY FAIRBANKS...