Word: retold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...until three females appear on the scene; the sister of the woman, now dead, whom he should have married, and that woman's three daughters, aged twenty, eighteen, and fourteen. Then the old sentimental story of ordered bachelorhood's being shot to pieces by arch femininity is once more retold, with delightful complications...
Last week Constance Rourke retold John James Audubon's story in a slender, attractive volume of Americana that was less a biography than a biographical essay on the naturalist. One of the two November choices of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Audubon is beautifully illustrated with twelve color plates, presents a romantic portrait of its hero with most emphasis on his picturesque frontier experiences, his difficulties in England and France, little emphasis on his harsh discouragements. Its high point deals with Audubon's awakening ambitions in the South. The dramatic bird life of Louisiana, where adroit...
...collapsed. Down into the swirling water 40 ft. below plunged Sisters Adele and Virginia Fowlkes of Denver, one Marion Scilley from Loveland. Last week on behalf of Sister Adele, who received severe leg and spine injuries from the fall, Sister Virginia appeared before the House Claims Committee in Washington, retold her experiences...
...middle class, 6,000,000 pre-Hitler Communists and the professions. Many of these have joined the Storm Troops for protective coloration, shout "Heil Hitler!" with the rest. In the Nation, U. S. Leftist magazine, Louis Fischer reported the widespread opposition to Naziism he had found inside Germany. He retold a Berlin cafè story of an imaginary visit to a factory by General Hermann Wilhelm Göring who told the men they must speak openly...
...congratulate Prizewinner Landis was Harvard's Physiologist Walter Bradford Cannon. Dr. Cannon voluntarily gave Christian Scientists scientific grounds for their dogma by demonstrating, first, that fear and anger disturb digestion, later that an unhappy mind may cause many kinds of bodily disorders. In Detroit last week Dr. Cannon retold his researches, advised physicians "to recognize the part which [mental healers] undoubtedly play in restoring the morale of the depressed and the anxious...