Word: tales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...film told a tale of pre-War Russia. Spliced into it for realism was a bit of old newsreel showing Tsar Nicholas II. and his Tsaritsa. Fascinated, poor Vassili Martinow watched the Autocrat of all the Russias stride dimly across the screen and enter a base hospital, where he was greeted by the Commandant. As this official's face came into sharp focus, Vassili Martinow gave the thin, high-pitched scream of an old man, and fainted dead away...
Readers of the Chicago Daily News were recently tantalized and vexed by a tale which its star correspondent, Julian F. Haas, cabled from Nicaragua. The story concerned the U. S. lieutenant "who has the reputation of having the largest foot in the Marine Corps. . . . Every shoe or boot that he requires has to be made to order...
...absorbing tale that takes Mr. Grove from his first job as a waiter's assistant in a cheap restaurant through the cities, factories, and harvest fields of a large section of America. His bitterness in his futile early search for Abraham Lincoln and his contempt for the type of American he does find give way finally to a rational appreciation and clear vision of America...
...enemies of humanity are revealed as men brave in the performance of the highest duty laid on man, and the alternate hope and despair that filled their hearts as they searched the dreary wastes, week after week, find an answer in the reader, so simply and graphically is the tale told...
...fairly well recognized fact that her first novel "Andy Brandt's Ark", that unusual tale of the American family, was a keen study of the basis of civilization today. In this, her latest novel, whether one is or is not in sympathy with her explanations of the puzzles the conditions of marriage have degenerated into today, one is forced to admit that Miss Bryner puts herself in a class alone in the psychological study of man and their relations with women...