This is a falsehood, an untruth, a whopper and a taradiddle, or to put it in clearer terms; a lie ."
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The peak of its current flowering may have been a George Booth cartoon in the Jan . 25 New Yorker, in which Congressman Blowviatt demands " no more half-truths, no more spins, no more taradiddles, " then retires to his room with a copy of Hustler magazine.