Possible Clues:

• Republican trapped by flagrant lie he wildly exaggerated
• Exaggerated note and far lengthier novel
• Appalling, her lie - flagrant and exaggerated
• Like an overdrawn fictional character?
• Lean girl - her fat dreadfully exaggerated
• Erring ringer with half tale extending beyond biography
• Exaggerated
• Very imposing — that's how actors are on the cinema screen
• Exaggerated energy after falling rather awkwardly
• Extravagant circulation claim by another old American magazine?